Thanks for the prompts,
I answered my own question:
Try the alias first, and if the result is not empty, go for the file
directly instead
My script works now.
Dennis
On Aug 17, 2005, at 5:56 PM, Dennis Brown wrote:
Ken,Jeanne,Jacqueline,
Yes I am on a Mac.
Yes Ken's script works on my alias', because the answer file
resolves the alias.
Yes aliasReference() returns the right file.
No, my script does not work:
on mouseUp --this script works for the file alias
put aliasReference(gDBTVDataFolder & "20040114" & ".csv") into
field "File path"
put URL ("file:" & field "File path") into field "file text" --
show for debug
end mouseUp
on mouseUp --this script works for the file, but the alias returns
empty data
put gDBTVDataFolder & "20040114" & ".csv" into field "File path"
put URL ("file:" & field "File path") into field "file text" --
show for debug
end mouseUp
So instead of resolving the alias, it is using the alias as the file.
I want to have a mix of alias' and files in a list without caring
which is which. How would I do that since the filenames are the same?
Dennis
On Aug 16, 2005, at 11:13 PM, Ken Ray wrote:
On 8/16/05 9:36 PM, "Dennis Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I have a very large list of large files (thousands) that I use as a
database in my program. I also use a subset of them for faster
testing. At first I was duplicating the subset in another folder,
but I thought it would be nice to just have an alias of the files I
wanted to use in that folder. The problem is that my program is
happy with the file names except it sees them as empty. Shouldn't
they provide the get File: URL command with the data from the
original file?
Yes, and in fact that seems to still be the case. I created a text
file and
an alias to the text file. I then ran this simple script:
on mouseUp
answer file "Pick the alias"
if it <> "" then
put url("file:" & it) into fld 1
end if
end mouseUp
and it successfully put the contents of the original file into
field 1.
Are you finding something else?
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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