World: r3wp

thanks ... knowing that the header was not in cause... alllowed me 
to find the true culprit .... some prerebol oditty which wrapped 
my entire code in a block (my fault in how I was using it).

strabge thing is that it was still running after encap... very weird.

(strange)

there is a nice feeling about seeing a 450kb 20 file REBOL script 
being linked as one source , then add another 400 kb of view encap 
code over it and it all works... 

850 kb of REBOL is a hell of a lot of code... I can't imagine how 
much code that would be in C  !!!

:-)

Some customers also get a little weirded out, when they see that 
my biggest programs take 2-3 seconds to download and about 0.1 seconds 
to install and start.

I've had that a few times, "where's the rest of the application ..."

I notice the icon of my encapped application displays info about 
rebol -company name, file version etc...

Anyway to get my info and file version for the App in there? If so 
-  Can this be done when encapping or to I need to change it afterward. 
It it indeed the icon that holds this info?

I guess I could use resource hacker...but is there a way to automate 
it during ENCAP

I wrote a function that called encap followed by reshack to solve 
the problem.

What did you use a reshack script?

I tried to make a reshack script to change the icon image but I could 
not get it to work...will have another look..

I simply used CALL to call encap and reshack sequentially. Kind of 
a make-file.

I have massive make files like this which do all kinds of script 
fixup, directory creations, zipping of archives, backups... and call 
res hacker... its the easiest way to encap stuff.

note that the icon has to be of an exact specification... you can't 
replace just any icon.  basically, there are 9 sizes/colors in the 
icon, and you have to use EXACTLY the same setup.

in the SDK docs, there is an example of a reshacker script call.

I've been able to change my icon with res hacker's ui but not via 
a script...i'll have another look at the SDK doc example...

http://www.dobeash.com/RebGUI/cookbook.html#section-2.3

Thanks, Ashley, I had seen this help page before but I did not remember 
ResHack stuff in it...Great!

Getting a weird behavior with an encapped app....


It works fine on most computers but on one computer an image in the 
face is not displaying properly...

its as if white space is being added to the right  and bottom sides 
throwing of the layout. 

I tried placing in a box with specific size. THis retains the basic 
layout but the image is squeezed up into a part of the box.
Only a problem on one computer so far ...

as a script I do not see this issue...

different OS?

different service pack?

what have you tried so far to debug this?

carefull... graham will give you his paypal account after   ;-P

I've never seen that artefact appear.  did you try changing the image?

Yeah .. I need to increase the amount of my bounty since no one is 
biting :)

3 computers > XP pro and 1 > vista laptop. Offending machine > xp 
pro

and have you determined whether it's specific to XP?  Or just to 
that PC?

I originaly just had teh pic displayed in a layout with "image pic"

I later put in a 'box with specified size (matching the resolution 
of image)

that is what image style is  ;-)

It appears to be just that machine but I tried it on an other machine 
with same hardware with no prob

oh

did you try different images?

The image was creaed from a layout (to-image)

created

But the layout also contains a jpg

and you are sure the image itself doesn't have the artefact?  (llooking 
into picture viewer, for eample)

I can't play with different images now as the offending computer 
is at work...I'll play with it tomorrow night..
Just wanted to see if it was a common problem..

Thanks

jpeg looks clean and displays proper everywhere else

there is a strange bug in view where face with edges need a color 
to be specified.  if color is none I've seen screwy thing happen 
with the edges.

but this just happens in some parent/child face nesting circumstance 
which I don't recall.

I'll try some other pics tomorrow night...its got to be something 
with the jpeg..

try making sure each face has a color, if you see the problem again, 
with another image.

Why only that computer and only when encapped is my question..


The work computer is FDNY property and locked down somewhat so its 
hard to debug if its the computer's issue...

to me its the "only when encapped" part which is the strangest!

Especially if the image is part of the binary

it is

Is the offending system set to use large fonts, or does it have a 
funky video setting (different DPI) that might be the culprit?

The screen does look off (aspect and resolution wise) but I can't 
check as the display properties access seems to be locked down for 
security...

In my old VB days, large fonts was a major bugbear.