Frontier 5.0.1 -> Radio 8.0.8 transition

Jeff Shepherd jeff at trg.saic.com
Thu Apr 10 18:04:25 PDT 2003


Inspired by the discussion that Radio is Frontier without the $$$ 
pricetag (and minus the web hosting capabilities) I have been 
incorporating my Frontier 5.0.1 website code into Radio 8.0.8.  If I 
can get everything up and going I will gladly pay the $40 pricetag 
for Radio. I'm on the Mac OS X (10.2.4) platform.  Some comments and 
issues

1) Wow!  Pretty smooth transition.  The database structure is mostly 
the same so all my old mods and sites and stuff just slide right in. 
Bravo for backward compatibility!

2) Macros could be looked up from the #tools table.  I have a bunch 
of macros in my website.#tools table that aren't being looked up 
[Macro error: Can't call the script because the name "jsUrl" hasn't 
been defined.].

3) In a related note, when I was rendering a page in Frontier 5.0.1 
and I got Macro errors, the user.html.macroErrors window would pop up 
and show the errors.  Though the web page has the macro error text in 
the HTML, the macro errors are not showing up in the 
user.html.macroErrors page.

4) Radio seems to constantly be processing in the background.  It 
looks like it saved the database every couple of minutes.  Can I turn 
this off? The File menu has a 'Work Offline' option that seem to turn 
off the local web service at http://127.0.0.1:5335/.  But there are 
all sorts of open files under the Window menu (staticSites.root, 
whoIs.root, etc.) and the StatusMessage says there are usually 4 
threads running, even when I'm not doing anything.

5) I had a couple of my own menus I created and use often.  I put 
their address into user.menus, which worked fine for the most part. 
Then I tried renaming them so the menus would appear in the order I 
wanted.  Lo and behold the user.menus.bookmark, user.menus.radio, and 
user.menus.tools all recreate themselves.  Is user.menus a proper 
place for me to be playing in?
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  - Jeff -



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