Hi Jacque, Using the "/Volumes" way of opening the file worked!
I ran into one issue - some of the filenames have unicode characters in them. I searched the list and found this solution from Bjornke: put unidecode(uniencode(tVar,"UTF8")) into tFilename That makes things work whether the file name has unicode characters in it or not. This, of course, is using pre-7.0 technology. Ou of interest, if I used 7.0 how would I set about translating a string with unicode characters in it into a form acceptable as an OSX filename? In answer to your thought about sandboxing, I'm doing exactly the same as iTunes - accessing music files in the ~/Music/iTunes folder so I assume they would be within the app's sandbox. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Peter Haworth <p...@lcsql.com> wrote: > Right, yes I did try that and all works fine using the contents of the it > variable that comes back. It uses the "/Volumes" format for the mounted > folder/file. > > Problem is though that I already have the location of the file I want to > play (but in "file://" URL format so don't want to prompt for it. > > Maybe I can get this working by somehow transposing the "file://" format > file URL I already have into a "/Volumes" format. I'll give that a try and > report back. > > Pete > lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> > Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and > SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html> > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:23 AM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com > > wrote: > >> On January 19, 2015 1:14:04 PM CST, Peter Haworth <p...@lcsql.com> wrote: >> >Thanks for all the suggestions. Still trying to get this working. >> >> >> I can't remember if you tried this yet but what happens if you do an >> "answer file" dialog and use the file path that comes back? >> -- >> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com >> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ 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
