Possible AcornURI load bug

On Mon, 14 October, 2013 6:42 pm, Malcolm Amir Hussain-Gambles wrote:
> I've developed !NewsUK that loads the BBC rss feed.
> When you click on a news item it opens a URL using AcornURI.
>
> However I noticed that it randomly works and more often than not it
> just opened a browser.
> After digging into this I found there were two mechanisms I was using,
> one if Netsurf wasn't running, and another if it was.
>
> When Netsurf runs it does an rmload on AcornURI, this is strangely
> enough wrong from what I have found.
>
> According to the documentation AcornURI has to be run using Filer_Run,
> otherwise it doesn't start all of the components necessary (some wimp
> task apparently), and URI_Dispatch doesn't work.
>
> The !Run file in netsurf should use Filer_Run rather than RMLOAD.
> I modified my !Run to do the following, which means it always "works
> for me" TM
>
> RMENSURE AcornURI 0.12 IfThere System:Modules.Network.URI Then
> Filer_Run System:Modules.Network.URI
>
> Not sure if I've got that correct or not, it does seem bizarre to not
> rmload a module though!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Malcolm
>

Cross-posted to dev list

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