Sorry Dar I posted my answer to your first message before finding this one!
Le 22 juil. 2013 à 16:11, Dar Scott a écrit : > I think I might not be under standing the situation. > > Questions inline. > > On Jul 22, 2013, at 6:50 AM, André Bisseret wrote: > >> Bonjour, >> >> Jacque, Dar and Peter, thank you much for your attention to my problem. >> Since your posts I made a number of trials during the weekend, following >> your suggestions but with no success. >> >> Reminder : the names of the files I am trying to launch from script have the >> following format : >> Joe PATIENT - bio checkup - 09/2013.pdf > > How do you know it has a "/"? If it has a ":" in OS X Finder and a dot of > some sort in Windows Explorer, how do you know about "/"? Was that what was > typed in at the scanner or at some strange OS? >> >> On Mac the slash is replace automatically by colon (:) (don't know why!) > > I'm not sure what "replaced by" means. Do you mean after a copy? Or do you > mean as viewed from a Mac, that is the file server file or flash drive file > looks different depending on what system is looking at it? My friend scans the paper documents he is receiving, save them as PDF and give them a name such as: Joe PATIENT - bio checkup - 09/2013.pdf All this PDF files for all his patients are in a same folder (DOCS BASE). There they keep the slash. It is when I built the list of files concerning one patient (set the repertory to DOCS BASE and put "the files" into a variable) that one gets ":" instead of the slash Then it is when I try my app on Windows one sees this (damned) dot instead of ":" > >> Anyway, all is working well >> I can open a file by double-clicking on it in the folder >> And, I can launch it by script (using its filename). No problem. >> ------- >> On Windows, the : (colon) is replaced with what seems to be a character ( a >> kind of dot. (or small bullet point?) with a sort of white space before it >> and a white space after. But, these are not "space" character (one can't >> delete them; on can only select the all > > Replace? As above. Is this after a copy or as viewed from Windows? It is as viewed from Windows, not after a copy > >> - Double-clicking on a document opens it (good) > > I see. The symbol in the file name is shown as a dot of some sort. That > might be the actual character there > or it might be some representation of a bad filename character. Seems to me that it is rather that last case > If that bad character is actually a slash, you have a couple barriers in > opening the file. First of all, the slash is processed by LiveCode and > converted to backslash in filenames. Second, windows might interpret that as > the end of the file name and the rest is some parameter of some sort; I'm not > sure. > > You might get some indication of what character is there by using dir in the > command window. Or use the LiveCode files() function. You can try that. Or > pull out the exact code that files() returns for that character and use it. > > Here are some things you can try that might launch the document without > knowing what that character is: > > Try LiveCode 'launch' with a question mark for the character. I doubt that > will work, but it is an easy test. Try backslash & slash for the character. > > Try launching with shell() on Windows. Try these: > > get shell( quote & "Joe PATIENT - bio checkup - 09?2013.pdf" & quote) -- > wildcard > get shell( quote & "Joe PATIENT - bio checkup - 09/2013.pdf" & quote) -- > quote slash > > get shell( "start " quote & quote & space & quote & "Joe PATIENT - bio > checkup - 09?2013.pdf" & quote) > get shell( "start " quote & quote & space & quote & "Joe PATIENT - bio > checkup - 09/2013.pdf" & quote) > I am not familiar with the command window nor with shell But sure I will do my best to try all your suggestions Thank you very much Dar for your help and your time I appreciate a lot André _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
