Two vanishing acts: no probs, just curious...
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 12:27 am
Hi, two vanishing acts which have left me scratching my head: if anyone has the secrets (I'm mean explanations!) I'd be grateful... these cause no problems and the saying "if it's not broken don't try to fix it" comes to mind but curiosity has me wondering. I'm sure there must be a logical explanation to:
• Vanishing Act No 1
I've been working my way through saving preferences to file examples recently; all works fine in test built apps. I decided to open the preferences.txt file in TextEdit, and it's... blank! Open app again, input different data, quit app, open again, there's the new stuff, great, preferences.txt still shows nothing. I don't understand.......................!
• Vanishing Act No 2
For certain reasons, I decided to reinstall Revolution 2.9 a couple of weeks ago. I separated the Plugins folder from the Rev folder then used the uninstaller. I can't remember if I ditched anything to do with GLX2 from the plugins or not; either way, there's nothing to do with GLX2 there (I wanted to do a fresh install of GLX2 using GLX2 Installer.app).
So I was really surprised when I opened and re-licensed the fresh download of Revolution (2.9) and there was GLX2 already installed! I thought it was a plugin, so where is it hiding in the plugins folder if it is? The only thing I can think of is it's now built into Rev, but with Rev's built in Script Editor, I wouldn't have thought so....hmm, i've got it, it's all done with mirrors...
I'll be asking some proper scripting questions soon, honest!
PS Edit added later: I did a little experiment yesterday and removed the Plugins folder completely from the Rev Folder and GLX2 is still there when running Rev, which means it can't be a plugin...it's installer must have installed it into my System, and it recognised a fresh copy of Rev...neat.
• Vanishing Act No 1
I've been working my way through saving preferences to file examples recently; all works fine in test built apps. I decided to open the preferences.txt file in TextEdit, and it's... blank! Open app again, input different data, quit app, open again, there's the new stuff, great, preferences.txt still shows nothing. I don't understand.......................!
• Vanishing Act No 2
For certain reasons, I decided to reinstall Revolution 2.9 a couple of weeks ago. I separated the Plugins folder from the Rev folder then used the uninstaller. I can't remember if I ditched anything to do with GLX2 from the plugins or not; either way, there's nothing to do with GLX2 there (I wanted to do a fresh install of GLX2 using GLX2 Installer.app).
So I was really surprised when I opened and re-licensed the fresh download of Revolution (2.9) and there was GLX2 already installed! I thought it was a plugin, so where is it hiding in the plugins folder if it is? The only thing I can think of is it's now built into Rev, but with Rev's built in Script Editor, I wouldn't have thought so....hmm, i've got it, it's all done with mirrors...
I'll be asking some proper scripting questions soon, honest!
PS Edit added later: I did a little experiment yesterday and removed the Plugins folder completely from the Rev Folder and GLX2 is still there when running Rev, which means it can't be a plugin...it's installer must have installed it into my System, and it recognised a fresh copy of Rev...neat.
