Re: XP, Vista, Choosing where to save rev files
sims wrote: If I let a Windows user choose via dialog where my app creates and saves a rev file, will any folders that can be chosen by the user be accessible to the rev app when it goes to open that file again? I'm a bit worried about users choosing to save the file into a folder that Vista will then not allow the rev app to open that file. Maybe I'm being overly paranoid ;-) But Vista seems a bit cranky. Vista *is* cranky, but I've had good results as long as I stick to folders within the user space. You can direct the user to their Documents folder by specifying the path there in the ask file dialog, using the specialFolderPath function: ask file Save file as: with specialFolderPath(Documents) That's no guarantee the user won't switch to a more troublesome folder, but in my experience many Windows users tend to stick to whatever folder you prompt them to. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: XP, Vista, Choosing where to save rev files
On Sep 12, 2009, at 6:17 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: sims wrote: If I let a Windows user choose via dialog where my app creates and saves a rev file, will any folders that can be chosen by the user be accessible to the rev app when it goes to open that file again? I'm a bit worried about users choosing to save the file into a folder that Vista will then not allow the rev app to open that file. Maybe I'm being overly paranoid ;-) But Vista seems a bit cranky. Vista *is* cranky, but I've had good results as long as I stick to folders within the user space. You can direct the user to their Documents folder by specifying the path there in the ask file dialog, using the specialFolderPath function: ask file Save file as: with specialFolderPath(Documents) That's no guarantee the user won't switch to a more troublesome folder, but in my experience many Windows users tend to stick to whatever folder you prompt them to. You could use a conditional loop and test, such as on testValidity put false into successful put itty bitty string into stringToWrite repeat until successful is true ask file Save file as: with specialFolderPath(Documents) put it into userChoice if it is empty then exit to top -- user cancelled put stringToWrite into url (file: userChoice) put url (file: userChoice) into gotItBack if gotItBack is not empty then put true into successful --else user chose a file and path that could not be used -- either the filename is invalid or the folder or both end repeat --if we get here, we can use the folder and file name ... more steps end testValidity Jim Ault Las Vegas ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
XP, Vista, Choosing where to save rev files
If I let a Windows user choose via dialog where my app creates and saves a rev file, will any folders that can be chosen by the user be accessible to the rev app when it goes to open that file again? I'm a bit worried about users choosing to save the file into a folder that Vista will then not allow the rev app to open that file. Maybe I'm being overly paranoid ;-) But Vista seems a bit cranky. sims ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: XP, Vista, Choosing where to save rev files
Run a loop that let's the user choose a folder, then you write a one- word temp file, read it, test for success. If not success, then loop back to inform the user 'no go, choose another, or set the security to allow access' Jim Ault Las Vegas On Sep 4, 2009, at 3:25 AM, jim sims wrote: If I let a Windows user choose via dialog where my app creates and saves a rev file, will any folders that can be chosen by the user be accessible to the rev app when it goes to open that file again? I'm a bit worried about users choosing to save the file into a folder that Vista will then not allow the rev app to open that file. Maybe I'm being overly paranoid ;-) But Vista seems a bit cranky. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
