list of file paths and copying these files to new directory

[Bob Hartley]

Hi All.
Thanks Sarah for the help again.


>>What I need is code, that when a button is clicked, will copy (or move) 
>>the files listed in field 1 or gHierList (which ever the list is in) from 
>>the source directory to a directory of the users choice.
>>
>>I assume that to chose a destination directory you would use.
>>on mouseUp
>>   answer folder "Please choose a folder:"
>>end mouseUp
>Yes, this will give you a path to the chosen destination folder.
>What happens next depends on whether you want to copy all your raw.pic 
>files in a single destination directory or whether you want to re-create 
>their original folder structure in the destination directory.


I want to copy all the files in a directory from the C:\drive IE the files 
listed to another drive but only the one destination folder and I odnt need 
to preserve the directory structure.


>Assuming the former (& easier), here is what I would do:


Yep the former


>answer folder "Please choose a folder:"
>put it into destFolder
>set the itemDelimiter to "/"
>put field "URL list" into theFiles
>
>repeat for each line f in theFiles
>         put destFolder & "/" & last item of f into newFile
>         revCopyFile f, newFile
>end repeat
>
>This is untested, has no error checking and provides no user feedback, but 
>it should be enough to get you started. The "repeat for each" loop is 
>always the fastest way to loop through any list.


OK tried this and got a message
executing at 10:27:44 AM
Type    Chunk: no such object
Object  Plonk Them Here
Line    put field "URL list" into theFiles
Hint    URL list


then i thought that the gHierList was put into field 1 so I added a 1 and got

compiling at 10:29:16 AM
Type    Handler: bad command
Object  Plonk Them Here
Line    put field 1 "URL list" into theFiles
Hint    URL list


Any ideas?

I really appreciate the help here. This is something for work so I'm keen 
to get it finished, then I can relax and learn the app development in time.


PS genesearch.com.au

see sig. I am designing this app (we you all are) for my biorad confocal 
file transfer.

Cheers
Bob


Dr. Robert Hartley, Spinal Cord Group, West Medical Building,
University of Glasgow, Glasgow. G12 8QQ
r.hartley at bio.gla.ac.uk
http://www.gla.ac.uk/~rh82p/