Alex Tweedly wrote: > J. Landman Gay wrote: > >> Alex Tweedly wrote: >> >>> Jerry Muelver wrote: >>> >>>> My first Rev app, being developed on Linux with Rev 2.2.1, saves and >>>> reads a data file. On Windows XP, with Dreamcard Player running the >>>> stack, the program goes through the motions of saving when called >>>> to, but nothing gets saved. On Mac, with Player, the file gets >>>> saved, but can't be opened by the program -- "answer file" dialog >>>> shows the file grayed out, and not selectable. I use "ask file" to >>>> SaveAs originally, direct "open file" for in-progress saves, and >>>> "answer file" to open or re-open the file. >>>> >>> Doesn't seem likely, but ... >>> >>> In the Player, are you sure you are running in non-secure mode ? >>> >>> The Player, by default, is in secure mode, and cannot write to the >>> disk or access the network. The preferences are available by clicking >>> the RunRev logo at top right of the window. >>> >> >> It's very likely, actually. Player ships with secure mode turned on by >> default, for the protection of the user. I was about to suggest >> exactly what you said. >> > It seemed like a good explanation for the symptoms described on Windows > - but I couldn't figure out how on the Mac it could apparently create > the file (even though it couldn't then read it). In secure mode it > shouldn't be able to create the file at all. > > Hmmm - maybe when the app re-opens the file using "answer file" with a > default answer of a non-existent file, that allows it to show as grayed > out ? Time for me to spend more time on the Mac .... >
I'm thinking the greyed out file is because the author is filtering on a file type and didn't get the Mac syntax quite right, or something similar. That's the most common reason why a file would be greyed out in the file dialog.
That doesn't explain how it could save the file in the first place though. The only thing I can think of is that maybe the file was pre-existing by accident. Secure mode is supposed to block all file access, and I think it works correctly.
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