From: Neil Hodgson <nhodgson@...>
Date: 2002-02-26T11:04:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows Installer Ruby 166-0 available

Andrew Hunt:

> Both.  Make sure you are using the ruby.properties file that
> the installer made.  Odds are, it's using the one that came
> with SciTE itself.

   I'd be happy to change the ruby.properties file distributed with SciTE to
be whatever the Ruby community wants, although I don't understand fully why
the particular commands were chosen. For those unused to SciTE, setting the
subsystem to 1 (GUI programs) rather than 0 (console programs) creates the
program with the show window parameter set to show rather than hide. The
'go' command from the installer creates a new console window which allows
input as well as output and also allows GUI applications to run although
they get an extra console window. However I expect this will not work on
Windows 9x as the command processor there is command.com rather than NT's
cmd.exe.

Ruby installer:
 command.go.*.rb=cmd /c ruby $(FileNameExt) < con: > con: 2>&1
 command.go.subsystem.*.rb=1
 command.go.*.rbw=rubyw $(FileNameExt)
 command.go.subsystem.*.rbw=1

SciTE defaults:
 command.go.*.rb=ruby $(FileNameExt)
 command.go.subsystem.*.rb=1

Further commands can be added to the Tools menu, such as:
 command.name.0.*.rb=Run non-interactive
 command.0.*.rb=ruby $(FileNameExt)
 command.subsystem.0.*.rb=0

   Neil