That worked on my Mac running OSX. That's a good sign! I'll test the other platforms.
THANK YOU ALEX!!!
Steve
So-- when I'm asking for the filename of this stack to be put into MyPathWay I can'd depend upon an absolute pathway- because of OS differences? Would using a relative pathway instead be wiser? If so how would I write that?
would this do the job?
if there is a file "TJsettings,txt" then
put URL ("file:TJsettings.txt") into TheSettings
else
put "1. CURRENT SETTINGS as of " & the long date & " - " & the long time & return & fld "generic" into URL ("file:TJsettings.txt")
put URL ("file:TJsettings.txt") into TheSettings
end if
I'm going to try this now.
S
Steve Bonham wrote:
My stack works perfectly UNTIL it is saved as a standalone. Then while opening the standalone gets hung/stuck- will not open!
I've isolated the code that is making the runtime version hang. If I make this section a comment it launches (as a standalone) BUT I need to be able to read from an external text file so I've got to get this function to work.
The following lines of Transcript are within the "on openstack" script. This is what is supposed to happen:
a. as stack opens it imports preferences from "TJsettings.txt" IF the files exists (and rev is told to look in the same directory my stack is in) to a variable named theSettings
OTHERWISE (there is NOT a TJsettings.txt file)
b. a default "TJsettings.txt" file (that the stack will save prefs to "on closestack") is created in the same folder my standalone/stack is in and that data is imported to a variable named theSettings
I don't really think this is the answer - but it's worth checking ....
What's in here that is so hostile? ---------------------------------------------------------------- put the filename of this stack into MyPathWay repeat until the last char of myPathWay is "/" delete last char of MyPathWay end repeat
That repeat loop bothers me - if for some reason MyPathWay had no "/" characters, you'd be in an infinite loop ....
maybe add a safety check around it, or put its current value into a field to check ....
if "/" is in MyPathWay then
repeat until the last char of myPathWay is "/"
delete last char of MyPathWay
end repeat
end if
or (what I'd do) ... set the itemDel to "/" delete the last item of MyPathWay -- and remember to set the itemDel back again, if necessary -- and remember that this strips the "" as well, so you'd then want to do put myPathWay & "/TJsettings.txt" into MyPathWay
put myPathWay & "TJsettings.txt" into MyPathWay
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if there is a file myPathWay then
answer myPathway ----- just a debugging attempt-- DELETE LATER-----------
put URL ("file:" & myPathWay) into TheSettings
else
put "1. CURRENT SETTINGS as of " & the long date & " - " & the long time & return & fld "generic" into URL ("file:" & myPathWay)
put URL ("file:" & myPathWay) into TheSettings
end if
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