running RedNotebook journal 1.7.1 on XP and Win7

If you are trying to run the RedNotebook 1.7.1 journal / diary on a Windows desktop you may have hit the same problems which I have had to resolve on XP Sp3 and Win7 Home Premium with Sp1.

If your Win XP environment contains a PYTHONHOME variable then you must set it to something inocuous such as a dot for the current directory of the Rednotebook.

I am doing this with a call to X-RedNotebook.exe in a 3-line BAT file which I summon from a 2-line VBS script that has a shortcut on my desktop ( this keeps a daft black DOS shell window from hanging around.)

On Win7 Home Premium Sp1 I could not get 1.7.1 to run as the X-RedNotebook variant until I had dragged in copies of the DLL's of which it was complaining as missing.

If you need details, drop a note.

If your upgrade to 1.7.1 went without a hitch, I would love to know the secret !

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Express 2012

MS Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop has this as minimum platform requirement: Windows 7 SP1 x86 or x64 #desktop #programming #C #Win64

a Rebol tip

If you are new to the Rebol language on Windows you may have noticed that there are 2 files named rebol.exe
One is in \core and one is in \view
If you have followed the wiki-book you may be in the habit of running \core\rebol.exe in which case you may hit two oddities: first, that console does not know how to respond to

desktop

and, second, that it cannot respond to

editor ""

or the more interesting

editor system/view

The answer is to launch Rebol only using the home directory view.exe
From there you can go back and forth to console and then return to ViewTop using the command

desktop

While you are at it, try

source build-tag

or

source to-email

or

type? {this and that}

or

reduce [ 2 + 3 + 5 7 ]

or

compose ["this" (21 + 21) "that"]

or

parse {this that these those} " "

and enjoy!

PS. Here are 3 links to console info:
core
shell
quick-start