Again, thanks for the replies, Dan and Andrew. I get no results. That is nothing from the text file. I got a long series of YesYesYes ...in the field. I'll try Andrew's suggeston:
open file tfilename for text read Dave >OK, do you get an error message when you try to read from the CD or do >you get erroneous read results or no results at all or what? > >Dan > >On Jul 10, 2004, at 1:09 PM, David Squance wrote: > >> Dan, >> Thanks for the reply. I'm only attempting to read from a file, not >> write >> to it, but is there a reason that doesn't work when the file is on a >> CD? >> This is part of the script I'm using: >> >> set the itemDelimiter to "/" >> repeat >> answer file "Choose the team name:" >> if the result is "cancel" then exit mouseup >> put it into tfilename >> put the last item of it into teamname >> -- 'teamname' holds the file's name with no extension that's >> obvious >> ,,, >> some stuff to determine the destination fld >> ,,, >> open file tfilename >> repeat for 200 >> read from file tfilename until return >> >> etc. >> >> It *is* working from the standalone, but not when all of it is on a CD. >> I checked over the entry in the docs you mentioned, but there were no >> obvious hints when 'answer file' is used--it's just referred to as a >> way >> of finding the correct file path. I wouldn't normally run it from a >> CD, >> but I don't want to install it on the Windows computer I'm using for >> testing, and if it won't work at home on my Mac, it won't likely work >> on >> a PC. >> Dave >> >>> I'm not 100% sure what might be going on here. It's not clear what you >>> mean when you say it doesn't work in a standalone. >>> >>> Two possible leads to follow based on my experience. >>> >>> First, if you're opening the files for reading and writing and they >>> reside on a CD (locked media), there may be some strange interaction >>> going on there. >>> >>> Second, file pathing is crucial and not always straightforward (at >>> least I haven't found it to be so). Particularly when you bundle as a >>> standalone and the text files are included in the bundle file pathing >>> is not what you expect it to be from your IDE experience. There are >>> some notes on this in the docs under "Why can't Revolution find a file >>> I specified?" Note particularly the defaultFolder stuff. >>> >>> HTH >>> >>> Dan >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-revolution mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >> > >_______________________________________________ >use-revolution mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
