Steve Bonham wrote:

REVers,

Using Revolution, I've created a main stack that reads from and writes to an external preferences text file entitled "TJsettings.txt".


In the stack script (on openstack) starts with:

put the filename of this stack into MyPathWay
  repeat until the last char of myPathWay is "/"
    delete last char of MyPathWay
  end repeat

  put myPathWay & "TJsettings.txt" into MyPathWay


answer myPathway --"BUG TEST" line



  open file MyPathWay

  read from file MyPathWay until EOF
  put it into TheSettings

  put theSettings into fld "settings"

---------
then I'll pull info from fld setting to reset preferences

Only thing is-- it's not working...


The "BUG TEST" line results in "Users/steve/Desktop/JeopardyQs/TJsettings.txt" which
is accurate. But nothing is appearing in the fld "settings"


Any advice?

The Subject line suggests the app is hanging - while the description sounds like it completes, just fails to get anything into the field.
So I'm not quite sure if this will help, but ...


open file MyPathWay

put "Result from open = " && the result & cr after msg


read from file MyPathWay until EOF put it into TheSettings

put "Result after read = " && the result & cr after msg


put theSettings into fld "settings"

btw - did you include a "close MyPathWay" ? Is it possible that the file was already open and had reached EOF ?
(I'm not sure what happens when you "open" a file that is already still open ....)


Alternatively, try
  put URL ("file:" & MyPathWay") into TheSettings
instead of the open and the read.

--
Alex Tweedly       http://www.tweedly.net



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