thanks for you responses,
in the meanwhile i wrote a handler myself,
just to not waste time searching.
but i posted the question becuase i asumed there must be much more
efficient way to do it, rather than creating repeatloops and walk
through all paths.
this can become very time/cpu consuming.
especially with lots of files and long paths
On 23 mei 2005, at 17:51, Irv Kalb wrote:
But the real question is why do you have "hard coded" path names in
your program? You can build your paths to be cross platform
compatible by using "the last char of the moviePath" as your
separator.
i'm not hardcoding filepaths in lingo, and i don't need the paths to be
platform-independant within director.
what i need, is to get the contents of a folder, built a list with
absolute paths to all the files in that folder in unix-style, so they
should look like "file:///Users/pietje/..."
then i use those paths to tell two another applications (through a
server, using xml/xmlSocket) which file it should open.
one of these apps is running locally, the other remote on a machine
with the exact-same filesystem structure.
a bit hard to explain all details..
i'll tell more about the project later.
it might be interesting to other director developers too.
thanks
arri
On 23 mei 2005, at 17:55, julian weaver wrote:
here's a version I wrote for mac - just add your prefixes for windows
on replacePathForUnix me, trackpath
replaceDelim = "/"
if the environment.platform contains "Macintosh" then
myPrefix = "/Volumes/"
findDelim = ":"
else
--// windows
myprefix = ""
findDelim = "\"
end if
repeat while offset(findDelim, trackpath) > 0
replaceChar = offset(findDelim, trackpath)
put replacedelim into char replaceChar of trackpath
end repeat
return myPrefix&trackpath
end
On 23 May 2005, at 16:28, arjen wrote:
hi
this must be so easy, but i can't find the answer anywhere;
howto replace all occurences of a character in a string with another
character?
the time i wasted with searching i could have also spent with making
a handler that does that,
but there must be a much faster way of doing it than looping through
all chracters in the string,
test to see if it needs to be replaced?
actually i'm looking for a way to convert mac or pc paths into
unix-style paths,
so instead of "HD:Users:pietje .." i want "/Users/pietje/.."
is there maybe a function to do that?
arri
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