On Mar 22, 2006, at 3:40 PM, thulme wrote:
Hi All,
I'm a newbie reading through Dan Shafer's ebook. My question has to
do with
page 273 of the book which states that typing (open file
"MyToDo.txt") into
the message box will create a file if none exisits. Nothing gets
created
when I do this. All that happens is the line I entered gets
highlighted. No
file created and no error message is displayed in the result frame.
I have
entered other commands and they work ok. Can anyone (Dan) explain
what I'm
doing wrong?
One common reason for this to happen is that you do not have write
permission for the defaultFolder. (It's more of a problem on Unix and
Mac OS X systems.) On startup, the defaultFolder property is always
set to the folder that contains the Revolution application. Not all
users on a system will have write access to that folder. Try changing
the defaultFolder to a folder that you do have write permission for
(I'm assuming OSX here):
set the defaultFolder to /Users/myusername/Desktop/
Then try it again. Chances are it will work this time. If this
doesn't fix it, try switching to the multi-line message box and enter:
openFile "myfile.txt"
put the result
Then hit the enter key. If there is an error 'the result' should
contain information about the error.
HTH
Devin
Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University
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