Answer File Command

[J. Landman Gay]

On 12/5/02 12:05 PM, Gregory Lypny wrote:
> My apologies for the last message; I forgot to include a subject.  Let 
> me try again…
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm writing a handler to open files and restrict the choices to text files.
> 
>  answer file "Choose your data file…" with filter TEXT
> 
> When I use the filter above in OS X, AppleWorks text files are 
> recognized but plain text files are not (they're dimmed).  I'd like to 
> be able to choose among all files with a .txt extension.  What am I 
> doing wrong?

This works for me in OS X:

  answer file "Choose a file:" of type "TEXT"

I see all types of files, both those with ".txt" suffixes and those 
without, including BBEdit files, text files created by 2 different 
browsers, and MC-generated text files.

However, I have noticed several times that OS X doesn't always 
"recognize" files right away. There have been times when a file was 
dimmed in the file dialog that shouldn't be. These are almost always new 
files, just downloaded or just created. Sometimes moving the file to the 
desktop and back will fix it, sometimes it takes hours before the Finder 
"sees" it as the right file type.


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