Jacqueline,
Thank you very much! Your explanation will save me a load of time. There really
ought to be a lesson on this, rather than making folks figure it out for
themselves. It’s so simple, yet so time consuming to figure how to implement
from the dictionary.
Best,
Bill
William A.
On 2/5/22 12:21 AM, prothero--- via use-livecode wrote:
Ok, thinking….. so for development, I would need to do something like:
function resPath
if the environment contains “Development” then
put specialFolderPath("resources”)&”/mydataFolder" into dataPath
else
Scott,
Thanks. That answers some of the questions I have about old code and refreshes
my memory on that issue.
I’m wondering if there is a lesson that clarifies this issue, including the way
“the stack files” property works and setting up the auxiliary data files.
Best,
Bill
William A.
I’m not entirely sure what your structure is or what you want to accomplish as
far as stack organization. In the IDE, specialFolderPath("resources") returns
the path to the current stack's folder.
If your supporting stack files are scattered around your hard drive then this
would make the
