Hi Bob, hmm, that is an interesting hint. My development folders are indeed on a windows server with a mapped share. But creating a new test stack, once saved on my local windows drive and a second time saved on the mapped server drive, both times the effective filename returns a path with slashes. In my real life application same call returns a path with backslashes. So there must be some more dependencies what changes the behavior of the effective filename.
So I will always have to check first if there are slashes or backslashes in my effective filename and depending on that result I will set the itemdel appropriate, because I never can be sure anymore, what is returned. Pretty weired. Thanks Tiemo > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [email protected] [mailto:use-revolution- > [email protected]] Im Auftrag von Bob Sneidar > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. November 2010 17:48 > An: How to use Revolution > Betreff: Re: slash and backslash in effective filename - why? > > Back slashes are used in netbios network share names. \\my-server\data > is how you would refer to a share on a PC using the netbios convention. > Apple uses a different method, with fully qualified domain names ex. > sbm://my-server.lan/data. Once you have the volume mounted though, you > would use the mount point /volumes/data. > > Might a file you are refrencing be a netbios volume? > > Bob > > > On Nov 10, 2010, at 3:04 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > LiveCode 4.5.1, Win 7 > > > > I have two stacks, a main stack and a second stack as a separate > stack file > > where I switch to by go to stack. > > > > In both preopenstack handlers I create some working pathes by > extracting > > items out of my effective filename. To handle the items I have to set > the > > itemdel to slash. > > > > > > > >> From now to then while testing some other features suddenly I didn't > got any > > pathes returned anymore, because of the itemdel slash. > > > > When asking for the effective filename of this stack, I get in the > first > > stack a path with slashes and in the second stack with backslashes > and > > therefore the items of my effective filename where empty. > > > > > > > > I tested with Rev 3.5, because I thought it has something to do with > > LiveCode but the path in my second stack contains also backslashes - > BUT > > nevertheless the delimeter slash works and it returns chunks of my > path. > > Then I created two new empty stacks, jumped with go from one to > another, but > > got slash pathes on both stacks. > > > > > > > > My workaround now is to set the itemdel to backslash on windows, but > this > > can't be the straight way, because the last years it worked with > slash as > > itemdel on both systems. > > > > > > > > Has anybody encountered this behavior or has an idea what may cause > this > > behavior? > > > > Thanks > > > > Tiemo > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-revolution mailing list > > [email protected] > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
