Thanks for the answer, Kevin. I guess I wasn't clear about what I
was trying to do. I know about what you pointed out (basically
filtering the answer file dialog). I want to do something like the
following:
get the files of type "MSTKSTAKTEXT"
put it into fld AvailableFiles
or get the file type of an individual file, something like:
get the fileType of file "/HD/MyFolder/MyFile"
I know the above syntax doesn't work, since fileType is simply a
global property that sets the file type for files saved from a stack.
But you get the idea. The reason for this is that I want to show the
user a filtered list of the files in the current directory OR I want
to automatically load/display the next image in a series (as
determined by the file name) from the current directory (basically I
can sort the directory contents to determine the order of the
images). The problem is that, while on Windows I can be reasonably
sure images will have either *.gif or *.jpg filenames (so I can make
sure I only try to set the fileName of my image object to a file with
such a suffix), I don't have a good way of making sure that a file is
an image file on a Mac before trying to use it's name as the fileName
of my image object. Is there any way to do this?
Dave Tremmel
>On 25/7/00 4:23 pm, David C. Tremmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to determine the type of a file on the MacOS? I have
>> tried looking in the help docs and in the archives. I did find where
>> Scott mentioned that you had to check if files had a certain type,
>> but I can't figure out how this could be done. I know how to filter
>> the answer file dialog to only show certain types of files, but I
>> would like to filter the file list before displaying it to the user
>> in the application I'm working on. I can use the filter command to
>> check for certain text in the file name, but can't come up with a way
>> to determine the Mac OS file type of individual files. Can this be
>> done?
>
>Yes, you filter a similar way to the way you do on Windows, e.g.:
>
>if the platform is "MacOS" then
> put "MSTKSTAKTEXT" into tFilter --hc, mc and text documents
>else
> --put your windows string in here
>end if
>answer file "Open stack:" with filter tFilter
>
>Regards,
>
>Kevin
>
>> Dave Tremmel
>
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