How to create a RAM disk in Livecode

[karmacomposer]

I have the need to create a ram disk to do functions out of prying eyes. How would I programmatically create a ram disk in windows using Livecode?

Thank you.

[dunbarx]

Hi.

Wouldn't it be easier to encrypt your standalone?

Craig

[karmacomposer]

Funny enough, this is after decrypting a file and then wanting to display it (pdf) in a browser control but I do not want to save the file to a hard drive first. It works if I save it, but my desire is to open it in memory, display it and then close everything without ever writing an actual decrypted file to a hard drive

Mike

[stam]

Funny enough, this is after decrypting a file and then wanting to display it (pdf) in a browser control but I do not want to save the file to a hard drive first. It works if I save it, but my desire is to open it in memory, display it and then close everything without ever writing an actual decrypted file to a hard drive

Mike

Would it be a problem if you saved to disk and then deleted it programmatically?
Typically specialFolderPath("temporary") would be used for something like that...

S.

[Klaus]

I'm still waiting for my money, Mike!

https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.p ... 30#p179153

And recently:
https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.p ... 65#p222565

[FourthWorld]

I have a solution, Mike. But Klaus is a colleague I've known for more than two decades, and I can't in good conscience lend my expertise to a situation that is harmful to him.

Please resolve the matter with Klaus, and when both of you confirm a mutually-satisfying solution has been arrived at I'll be happy to help.

In the course of my career as a contract developer I've also been invited to act as a non-binding mediator on a few occasions, to help negotiate matters like this. I would volunteer to do so here via private email if that would help.

But by whatever means, this situation has continued for years now, and it needs to be resolved.

It needn't be resolved here. These are LiveCode support forums, and should remain so. Personal matters are best resolved through private channels.

You're both earnest professionals and I'm confident a solution can be arrived at. Please contact Klaus and make arrangements. Thank you.

[karmacomposer]

I have a solution, Mike. But Klaus is a colleague I've known for more than two decades, and I can't in good conscience lend my expertise to a situation that is harmful to him.

Please resolve the matter with Klaus, and when both of you confirm a mutually-satisfying solution has been arrived at I'll be happy to help.

In the course of my career as a contract developer I've also been invited to act as a non-binding mediator on a few occasions, to help negotiate matters like this. I would volunteer to do so here via private email if that would help.

But by whatever means, this situation has continued for years now, and it needs to be resolved.

It needn't be resolved here. These are LiveCode support forums, and should remain so. Personal matters are best resolved through private channels.

You're both earnest professionals and I'm confident a solution can be arrived at. Please contact Klaus and make arrangements. Thank you.

As I said in another post, no one has all the info and there is no way Klaus will admit to it, but he overcharged us by a HUGE sum of money with no warning that was not agreed on ahead of time. We paid plenty of money for code I literally had to re-write because what he wrote broke my code. He did not understand what we needed fully at the time and had to do things his way, not ours. In the end, it all had to be scrapped and re-written from the ground up.

To make matters worse, I had a car accident where we rolled 5 times and was hospitalized - so I had to re-write all of this while extremely injured. To say this is a sore subject is an understatement.

At the moment, I am broke. When I am paid by some clients, I will likely pay Klaus $100 to shut him up already.

I am done with all of this. Everyone may think that Klaus is an angel, but he's not.

Mike

[richmond62]

Um: this rather non-professional flame throwing might be better were it deleted.

And while someone maybe 'no angel' (I'd tell you that no one is an angel if I didn't think that with a moment's reflection you could work that out yourself), and we ALL have bad sides: apart from the odd vaguely sarcastic remark, I have never been burnt by the person in question, in fact far from it: nothing but helpful over a 23 year period.

[SparkOut]

The flaming had long since died down to cold ashes, until the thread was reignited by a seemingly AI generated post.
Is codexelaine really using LiveCode for anything?

[dunbarx]

Sparkout.

Intriguing that you think AI generated codexElaine's post. It sound legit to me. But if not, we are getting into scary waters. That short post is really, er, life-like.

Craig

[dunbarx]

There is another post by, um, Elaine:
viewtopic.php?f=93&t=38861&p=232416#p232416
Reading that, composition and wording are precise and to the point. No comment on actual accuracy.

Too precise and too pointed?

We are doomed?

Craig

[richmond62]

Maybe that 'reviver' is NOT an A.I. bot, but just a plain, old-fashioned sh*t stirrer.

[jacque]

I always look at the poster's profile when in doubt. This one joined the same day "she" posted 2 generic messages. I always suspect AI when that happens. AI is getting very sophisticated these days.

[richmond62]

As usual, you are right on the money.

[dunbarx]

Looks like AI.

But someone must be at least familiar with LC, if not a user, to be here in the first place, and take the time to create the, er, content.

So cummon, human, show yourself.

Craig