Re: [MacPerl-Forum] Droplet Creation Woes....

[Greenblatt & Seay <g-s@alltel.net>]

>Hello MacPerl forum
>
>I'm unable to create droplets using the BBEdit MacPerl menu when my perl
>source code file goes over 40k in size. Anything under works fine. Also, if
>the new large droplet is going to replace an existing one it will delete the
>existing droplet but fail to create the new one. There are no error messages
>of any kind that I can see when this happens. I'm certain the problem is
>related to file size as I removed the code that I added and the droplet
>compiled fine, I then added lines of comment characters "######...." until
>it reached a point where the droplet creation failed. My colleagues with
>similar set ups have no such problems and can compile code with no problem
>that will fail on my machine. I've tried allocating more memory to BBEdit
>and MacPerl but to no avail.
>
>If anyone can help me out with this I would be very grateful.
>
>For your info, I'm using MacPerl 5.2.0 r4 with BBEdit 5.1.1 on MacOs 8.6.
>
>Regards,
>
>Paul.
>

I don't have a clue as to why you are having this problem, but I can
suggest a work-around. I keep my program code in a text file, and rather
than turn it into a droplet, I create a very short droplet that points to
this text file. This way I never have to recreate the droplet, just the
text file. I picked this idea up from someone on the list a couple of years
ago. Thanks to whoever submitted the idea in the first place.


#!perl5

do "path:code_text_file.pl";

__END__

David Seay
http://www.mastercall.com/g-s/



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