On Apr 03, 2007, at 3:20 PM, Charles Yeomans wrote: > > On Apr 3, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Norman Palardy wrote: > >> If a person needs to call a library that takes a fully qualified path >> (say fopen or something like that) that takes a path as a string what >> is the "best" way to get the proper path ? >> >> The ShellPath for a folder item includes escaped characters so those >> won't work. >> I can just rip the \ out, but I'm concerned that may not give me the >> proper path to pass to a C function. >> >> Ideas for this ? >> _______________________________________________ > > > For Linux, use FolderItem.AbsolutePath. For Mac OS, ripping out the > escape characters usually works, but for some projects I call File > Manager functions to get a POSIX path.
Thanks I'll find the ones I need then as this is on OS X _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
