I followed their suggestion with
"answer file" and, lo and behold, I can access NWE files. Thanks for
broadening my horizon!

Unfortunately, in practical terms, "answer file" would not work for my
specific needs at the moment. I hope to be able to display text which can
be directly read from a file without interrupting the process of going
from card to card.

The only function of the "answer file" was to get the correct file path for your text document. Once you see how the file path was put together, you can use that or a similar path in a script and not ask the user anything unless the file is missing.


-- file selection routine called once only
-- it stores the file path in a custom property
on findFilePath
  answer file
  if it is not empty then set the cStoredFilePath of me to it
end findFilePath

-- regular scripted handler to read the file
on readFile
  put the cStoredFilePath of me into tFile
  if there is not a file tFile then findFilePath
  put URL ("file:" & tFile) into fld "Text"
end readFile

Cheers,
Sarah
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