[REBOL] Re: [protect-system] does not work [user.r]
From: maximo::meteorstudios::com at: 15-Apr-2004 14:20
Hi Arie,
its been a while since user.r was a topic
well, the beta versions treat the user.r the same, its just that its content is not set
by the install tool. There is no installation, so rebol does not copy rebol.exe into
your home with a copy of user.r (which very few even realize happens).
It gets quite complex because in addition to the rebol.exe directory and your user/home
directory, the user.r can ALSO be sourced in any icon's current directory or specifed
startup dir...
It is quite possible that your current install setup does not properly map to any user.r
file.
at home, to get user.r to be sourced properly in beta versions, I must:
-Create a shortcut to the rebol.exe version I want
-Clear the field of startup directory within the shortcut properties.
-put a user.r file in the location of the exe
-Drag the reblet.r file ON THE SHORTCUT.
dragging the same reblet on he actual executable will fail!
-you can also set the .r association to a specific version, in which case double clicking
on a reblet, will equate to dragging it on the shortcut.
I also add a print statement in ALL my user.r which prints what-dir. This will tell
you where the user.r was sourced.
also, do a search of your machine for user.r files...
the first time I noticed that user.r was a slippery file to locate, I had 4 user.r files
here and there and depending on the way the script was started, any one of the 4 files
would be used and that's with the release version only!!!
So, deleting the redundant ones will force rebol.exe to fallback on a shorter list of
files, but in the end, the one in the same directory as rebol.exe tends to be the one
used. and in some cases (like if you have a %home% env variable) it might not want to
fallback to other directories.
I did not confirm this with version 1.2.46 specifically, but that's how its been so far
with beta versions.
HTH!
-MAx
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