At 13:11 +0100 02/01/2002, Tony �str�m wrote:
>I save a textfile with my suffix .ecd in Dir.8.0 (fileio).
>On Mac it works fine = filename.ecd but
>on Win it also apply .txt = filename.ecd.txt
>WHY?????
For some reason Director assumes that a path passed along in FileIO
on Windows, if an extension is not explicitly supplied, should have a
.txt appended. It's frustrating.
To be fair I believe this is an artifact of FIleIO itself, which was
released in its current incarnation with Director version 5. AFAIK it
has not been significantly altered since then.
Here's the fix. Assume the filename you want to use is stored in the
variabe sMyPath. Add these lines of code just before you actually
create and save the file. (Naturally you will want to substitute
sMyPath for whatever variable you are using.)
sDelimSave = the itemDelimiter
the itemDelimiter = "."
if the last item of sMyPath = "TXT" then
delete the last item of sMyPath
end if
the itemDelimiter = sDelimSave
You can let this run on Mac too. It won't have any effect there.
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