I see (well, sort of). I'm running 8.5.1 on W2K, by the way.
I assume you have updated to 8.5.1 for Win XP compatibility? Bertil Flink Creative Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fabrice Closier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 1:01 PM Subject: Re: <lingo-l> path seperators on a mac > ok, john, > >They all work fine! > yes on windoz.... > what i mean, is that if you port the app from mac to win, and change > the \ bij : it wil in some cases not work. > > i can tell... just spend yesterday and today sweating writing a loop > that returns the entire filenames list from a a given path > and because i wanted to scan till no more folders, subfolders, files > were found, i needed to create from each folder scan the next seachpath. > > using the "logical" translation : bij \ simply doesn't work.(FOR ME) > not adding the : on mac and adding it for win was the solution to me. > but i agree that it might be laying on the synthax i use to create this > path. > i might look at the problem from another point of view than you since i > first author on mac, then bring few changes for the win version. > > but i dont say what you've wrote is wrong, i just say that in particular > case those "signs" give troubles and got paths like > HD::filename causing my loop to exit... > > by the way, you should know that 8.0 was not giving the problem using > open file, but when i've imported the 8.0 dir into 8.5. the result was a > non functionning openfile. I read on macromedia technotes that changes > were made into 8.5 according to security reasons. in case you run on 8.0 > it could be the reason you get the thing working as you describe. > > Fabrice [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
