Proxies in the Preferences

[johnjohnston]

Hi,
The Local Authority I work in (North Lanarkshire in Scotland) has just purchased LiveCode for use in our secondary schools.

We use a proxy to connect to the Internet.
This means we need to put the proxies into LiveCode's prefs on Mac OS, windows seems to get the system settings.

I've tried the following code in the terminal , and through Apple Remote Desktop to set the correct proxies:

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osascript -e 'tell application "LiveCode 5.5.3" to do script "set  the httpproxy to \"THE_FORUM_WONT_LET_ME_POST_LINKS\" "'

This works, but the proxies don't seem to 'stick' when LiveCode is relaunched.
They do seem to work if I manually open the prefs after setting via Apple Remote, but that rather defeats the purpose.

I've only made a couple of tests on a dozen or so macs, but would be grateful if someone could let me know if there is a way to do this.

Obviously using live Code 5.5.3, mac os 10.5 and 10.6 probably will be using 10.7 and 8 too.

cheers

John

[Klaus]

Hi John,

Livecode will read its preferences file on startup and set all these global properties,
but you did not set that pref, just the global property, which will be gone after LC quits.

The Livecode "preferences" is a stack (on my Mac) in:
specialfolderpath("preferences") & "/Runrev/livecode.rev"

I did not take a look yet, but this is surely a custom property in that stack


Best

Klaus

[johnjohnston]

Thanks Klaus,

That did the trick, this AppleScript seems to work:

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tell application "LiveCode 5.5.3"
	activate
	do script "open  stack specialfolderpath(\"preferences\") & \"/Runrev/livecode.rev\""
	do script "set the cHTTPProxy of  this stack to \"PROXY_GOES_HERE\""
end tell

So I'll wrap that in a shell script for use in Apple Remote.

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osascript -e 'tell application "LiveCode 5.5.3"' -e 	'activate' -e 	'do script "open  stack specialfolderpath(\"preferences\") & \"/Runrev/livecode.rev\""' -e 	'do script "set the cHTTPProxy of  this stack to \"PROXY_GOES_HERE\""' -e 'quit' -e 'end tell'

Appreciate the lightning quick reply.

cheers

john

[Klaus]

Hi John,

my pleasure

But you will also need to "save" and maybe also "close" that stack after setting the custom prop!
Otherwise this will also be "forgotten" after LC quits


Best

Klaus

[johnjohnston]

But you will also need to "save" and maybe also "close" that stack after setting the custom prop!
Otherwise this will also be "forgotten" after LC quits

Ah, thanks again, too much SC and HC in my brain to think of saving!

cheers

john