Thanks, very clear explanation! I’m using Indy (i.e Commercial) versions, so now I understand.
Graham > On 5 Mar 2018, at 12:27, Charles Warwick via use-livecode > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Graham, > > In commercial versions of LiveCode, the default behaviour of the Internet > library (libUrl) is to include and use tsNet. > > It calls tsNetInit on startup so that you don’t need to do that separately. > > Hope that helps, > > Charles > >> On 5 Mar 2018, at 7:21 pm, Graham Samuel via use-livecode >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I’ve been executing this line of script in an app made on a Mac with LC >> 9.0.0 dp11 >> get URL “http://www.myserver.com/mytextfile >> <http://www.myserver.com/mytextfile>.txt >> >> It works fine, but I also wanted to detect what happens when the connection >> can't be established, so I made the command fail by switching off internet >> access on my machine. I got an error in ‘the result’, as expected. Or at >> least I got one when the line was executed in the IDE, and this was a tsNet >> error. As I had not initialised tsNet in my script - according to the >> dictionary, this **must** be done before tsNet functions are used - I >> concluded that the IDE had done it for me. >> >> Fair enough, but I then reasoned that if I wanted to see the same kind of >> explicit error messages in my standalone, I would have to include a call to >> tsNetInit in my script. However, I created a little test app which >> **doesn’t** make any tsNet calls, certainly not initialising the package, >> but I still get a tsNet style error, e.g. >> >>> tsneterr: (6) Could not resolve host: www.myserver.com >> >> So, what’s going on? Is tsNet now always included in a standalone, and if >> so, how does it get initialised? >> >> Puzzled, not for the first time. >> >> Graham >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
