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lexvictory wrote:Can the preferences file location be explained?
i know its in app data, but is there a way to make it use a local one (for using more than one pb/tailbite version for example)?

Check the Tailbite installer source to see how it's done there.

Mistrel wrote:Check the Tailbite installer source to see how it's done there.

No it´s not the installer, see in Preferences.PB how it´s done

ABBKlaus wrote:

Mistrel wrote:Check the Tailbite installer source to see how it's done there.

No it´s not the installer, see in Preferences.PB how it´s done

The installer looks up the location of the prefs file to install the Tailbite tool. I don't remember which file that part of the source it's in. It could be Preferences.pb.

ok, i still dont really get the subsystems problem...

because when i compile in ascii mode, the lib gets created properly
however, when i check for example unicode, tailbite deletes/moves the lib from the normal userlibraries directory, but compilation fails probably because pb finds the lib in the subsystem folder... then the normal userlibrary isnt replaced when it fails

should tailbite be deleting the lib file just from the subsystems folder? maybe both?

or am i just totally misunderstanding the subsystems options in tailbite manager?

new version is out : TailBite V1.3 PR 1.866

http://www.tailbite.com/?download=TailB ... taller.exe

[28] JAN 22th 2008 TailBite v1.3 PR 1.866
- added a warning when a library already exists somewhere in the Subsystem folder (found by lexvictory)
- added a warning when .PB extension is not registered correctly and PBCompiler.exe was not found (found by hurga/Dostej)

see first post for more deatils.

this is probably a stupid question, but how do i get tailbite to make a unicode and/or threadsafe lib from the command line?
ive been trying and it doesnt seem to be working..

or is it not enough to just call tailbite from cmd.exe in the tailbite dir?

you can find the commandlineoptions here : http://www.tailbite.com/help/Reference/ ... tions.html

What does Tailbite do with the %TEMPFILE parameter that's passed to it by PureBasic?

Also, can the console window that flashes on the screen every time TailBite.exe is called be suppressed?

its not flickering anymore : TailBite V1.3 PR 1.867

http://www.tailbite.com/?download=TailB ... taller.exe

[29] JAN 25th 2008 TailBite v1.3 PR 1.867
- fixed console window flashes no more (found by mistrel)
- added commandline options to the documentation (requested by lexvictory)

see first post for more deatils.

Tailbite takes a considerable amount of time to compile the libraries I'm building with my current project. When recompiling all 24 libraries, each of them either several hundred or several thousand lines, it takes a while.

I noticed that Tailbite does not compile more than one at a time even if I pass two files to Tailbite.exe to process in parallel.

It would be a great enhancement if Tailbite would consider the number of cores available and allow that many instances to run at once. On my dual-core cpu it might cut my compile time almost in half.

Mistrel wrote:It would be a great enhancement if Tailbite would consider the number of cores available and allow that many instances to run at once. On my dual-core cpu it might cut my compile time almost in half.

I added an option to TailBite to use more than one thread at a time.

/MULT - allows to run more than one instance of TailBite

But a TailBite thread could stop when another one is just finishing its work and copying back its saved userlibrary.
This could lead into weird error messages And some libs have dependencies to other userlibs like PurePDF / PDFMisc / PDFDraw / PDFBarcode ...

The version 1.868 that i have just finished will have some batch-functions, i think this will be a better idea than to thread TailBite.

http://www.tailbite.com/?download=TailB ... taller.exe

[30] JAN 31th 2008 TailBite v1.3 PR 1.868
- added batch options (requested by mistrel)

Regards Klaus

Thank you for adding the batch options, ABBKlaus.

Tailbite is also missing the TB helper library for creating gadgets, the TB_GadgetExtension.res file, and the example described in the Tailbite documentation.

Mistrel wrote:Tailbite is also missing the TB helper library for creating gadgets, the TB_GadgetExtension.res file, and the example described in the Tailbite documentation.

They where removed because they won´t work in all PureBasic Versions and i cannot guarantee that they work in future versions of PB.