On Feb 13, 2007, at 19:33 , Andreas Raab wrote:

> Matej Kosik wrote:
>> This is what everybody knows. However, if Squeak requires URI  
>> instead of
>> path, it is actually not possible to create Squeak scripts. Is this
>> true?
>
> The relevant code is in ProjectLauncher>>startUpAfterLogin and is  
> trying to recognize regular files, or rather it is even assuming  
> regular files and figures out specific types of URLs:
>
>   scriptName := (Smalltalk getSystemAttribute: 2) ifNil:[''].
>   scriptName isEmpty ifFalse:[
>     "figure out if script name is a URL by itself"
>     isUrl := (scriptName asLowercase beginsWith:'http://') or:[
>       (scriptName asLowercase beginsWith:'file://') or:[
>       (scriptName asLowercase beginsWith:'ftp://')]].
>     isUrl ifFalse:[scriptName := 'file:',scriptName]].
>
> Looks like the culprit is the last line, trying to construct an  
> (incorrect) file url. For starters, try fixing this line and see  
> where it gets you.

It actually works on Unix with an absolute path ;-)

- Bert -