At 3:13 AM -0700 6/30/2005, Scott Morrow wrote:
Although changing the file name of an open file seems like a bad idea, I'm sure one of my users will do it and then get confused when their newly named file doesn't contain the most recent changes. I noticed that Appleworks 6 (OSX) doesn't have a problem with the file name being changed.
It's a design flaw that goes back to HyperCard. HC and Rev alike use hardcoded file paths, rather than filesystem specs. (It's worth noting that some OS X applications do this too and exhibit similar problems.)
In the case of Rev, there's some excuse for it, since a file path is a simple string (and thus can be dealt with easily in Transcript). But it does have the effect that if you change a file's path while it's open, either by renaming it or moving it, things break. I'm not sure there's a good workaround.
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