Version 17 of Sexy Starkits

Updated 2002-09-17 05:44:14

Welcome to Rohan Pall's hints on how to use those sexy starkits!

A ton of this info was lifted from others, so relax and enjoy their hard work ;) I've made all the hints into seperate pages so others can add to them, and to facilitate links.


No Magic or Policy in Starkits

Inspecting Your New Starkit

Writing to Your Starkit

Starkit Meet Zip


writable writeable vfs

I packaged my mindweb app in a starkit. All its data was also stored in the starkit. I had read somewhere that by default starkits were writable (r/w) but this in fact has changed over summer 2002. [L1 ] Now starkits are by default read-only (r/o) [L2 ], but the documentation is lagging behind that fact.

You make your starkit writable by doing it at wrap time:

  sdx wrap app.kit -writable

2002-09-17 (September 17, 2002) sdx doesnt give any hints that this option exists when displaying help with

  sdx help wrap

but it does indeed exist! ;>


starkit meet zip file

This is just another wow feature. There are gems just waiting to be picked up in starkits, and here is one that I found while unpacking and reading the tclkit, in "./lib/vfs/zipvfs.tcl"


Category TclKit