Thanks to all who replied about this. I think Jacque must have been
right about my somehow delaying looking at 'the result' - it really
happened but now I can't reproduce it. Anyway, Jim Ault's suggestion
Try this snippet and see what you get
create folder "cde:/illegal:name/"
get the result
if it is not empty then
beep
put it
answer error it -->"can't create that directory"
end if
Worked exactly as advertised. So what I described was an unexplained
glitch, possibly something to do with the IDE. The cause of the error
in the first place is something of a mystery to me, and I wondered if
it was something to do with the way the RR engine translates path
strings from Unix-style to Windows-style on the fly. As happens to me
all too often, a search of the documentation didn't reveal anything
about this...
Richard G asked
The hard part is determining exactly what went wrong. When a file or
folder creation error happens, in most cases all the result says is
"can't create file" or "can't create folder" with no further
explanation. How do you advise your users?
Basically, I tell them to pick a folder for themselves rather than
letting the app create one for them, as it's failed to do this. It's
a crude approach and I'm not sure how it's going to play when the
public (UK teachers) gets hold of it. It's about to go on a
controlled beta, so we'll see.
As to 'try', as suggested by Stephen Barncard apparently is
inappropriate. I've never used 'try', so I might do so in another
context if I can get my head round it (reading about it once wasn't
enough for me to get the idea, but I learn more slowly these days). I
guess it comes from a context I don't know.
Graham
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Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK and France
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