ThinBasic CD/DVD Programs

[Ronnie Cohen]

Hi - I am new to ThinBasic (The paint is still wet...) and have a question. If I understand correctly when you run a ThinBasic Program it creates an invisible folder on your drive, so does that mean you can not run a ThinBasic program on a read only or closed CD/DVD? Thank you...

[chameau]

Hi - I am new to ThinBasic (The paint is still wet...) and have a question. If I understand correctly when you run a ThinBasic Program it creates an invisible folder on your drive, so does that mean you can not run a ThinBasic program on a read only or closed CD/DVD? Thank you...

Hi Ronnie,

When you execute a script in ThinAir , I never seen new directory created.

When you execute a bundled script the following phases are executed : (I work with W7, I wonder that it in not really different in more recent win ?)


The .exe creates a directory in \users\name\AppData\Local\Temp\ with a name like {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}
As most of win applications uses this method I can't imagine that this directory resides in a read-only partition.

In that directory it uncompress some .dll file corresponding to modules declared by the Uses directive, and the main interpreter thinCore.dll :

it also uncompress files so declared to be included in bundling phase.

then the script is executed.

at the end of the script the directory is deleted. But sometimes, if the execution fails, the directory remains. This is why it's a wise thing to check the Temp directory




So if your bundled .exe file is on a read-only partition there is no problem.

Hope that will help you ?


Regards

François.

[Ronnie Cohen]

Hi Ronnie,

When you execute a script in ThinAir , I never seen new directory created.

When you execute a bundled script the following phases are executed : (I work with W7, I wonder that it in not really different in more recent win ?)


The .exe creates a directory in \users\name\AppData\Local\Temp\ with a name like {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}
As most of win applications uses this method I can't imagine that this directory resides in a read-only partition.

In that directory it uncompress some .dll file corresponding to modules declared by the Uses directive, and the main interpreter thinCore.dll :

it also uncompress files so declared to be included in bundling phase.

then the script is executed.

at the end of the script the directory is deleted. But sometimes, if the execution fails, the directory remains. This is why it's a wise thing to check the Temp directory




So if your bundled .exe file is on a read-only partition there is no problem.

Hope that will help you ?


Regards

François.

Hi François

Thank you for your response. So, if I understood correctly there are no problems running a Thinbasic program from DVDs. - Ronnie