Have you tried calling resetAll? Terry...
On 20/11/2012, at 09:39 AM, Gabriel Johnson wrote: > Thanks yeah, I realized that after I sent the email that htmlText is not a > good variable name, I put that in as an afterthought in the email. But it > returns the same result when I run it anyway. > > No antivirus running. > > Gabe > > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Michael Kann <mikek...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Gabriel, >> >> I've never had this problem, but I'll chime in anyway -- what the heck. >> My suspect is an anti-virus progam or two itching for a fight once in a >> while. >> >> One thing I noticed was that you used "htmlText" as a variable. Since >> "htmlText" is a reserved word it probably is risky to do that, though it >> seems to work for me, too. >> >> Best of luck, >> Mike >> >> >> >> --- On Mon, 11/19/12, Gabriel Johnson <gwj...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> From: Gabriel Johnson <gwj...@gmail.com> >> Subject: URL function fails on http requests, results in "invalid host >> address", other internet functions work correctly >> To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Date: Monday, November 19, 2012, 2:14 PM >> >> Hi All, >> >> We are having a baffling problem with the standard URL function not working >> on one of our machines. >> >> Message Box Example: >> >> put url "http://www.google.com"; >> >> returns empty. >> >> >> If altered slightly to give more feedback, then: >> >> put url "http://www.google.com"; into htmlText; put the result >> >> returns "invalid host address" in the message box. >> >> >> Here are some things we've tried and the results: >> >> 1. Other internet applications run fine on the computer. Firefox/Safari >> load www.google.com just fine >> 2. Older versions of LiveCode, which had previously worked, now fail with >> the url command >> 3. Creating a dummy user account and running LiveCode fresh causes the url >> command to work >> 4. Other LiveCode internet commands/functions work >> fine: hostnametoaddress(), liburl functions >> 5. Zapping the PRAM caused the url function to work one of the times we >> tried it, for a limited period of time. >> >> So, it seems to be something very specific to the url function (at least >> with http requests) on this one user account that is failing. It appears it >> might be something corrupt in the user library. A first thought we had was >> to remove all LiveCode items from the user Library and start from scratch >> on the original user account. However, I'm not sure if we removed >> everything. We removed the "RunRev" folder from Application Support, and >> the following 4 preference files: com.runrev.livecode.plist, >> com.runrev.revinstaller.plist, com.runrev.revolution.plist, >> com.runrev.revolution.plist.saved. >> Are there some other items from the user Library/etc we need to remove to >> completely uninstall LiveCode from the original user account? >> >> Does anyone know any more about the http url function in general? Is there >> some other process/function in sits on top of that I could look at to >> figure out why this specific user account causes it to fail? >> >> Thanks >> >> Gabe Dr Terry Judd Senior Lecturer in Medical Education Medical Eduction Unit Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences The University of Melbourne _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
