yes, i'am 8.5.1 on both sides, but thats ok with me, since i now know the difference... Took me a few hours but i'am ready for future scripts with win/mac paths...
think everyone on the list is now aware of this difference, except the spam guy... Fabrice Bertil Flink wrote: > 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!] [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!]
