Link to file

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Jim Hurley <jhurley at infostations.com> wrote:
> I am trying to go back over an old stack, written in
> the days before 
> I knew better, and use relative paths (that is the
> path relative to 
> the current stack filename) to locate images rather
> than the full 
> path.
> 
> But I am unable to delete the contents of  "Link to
> file" field in 
> the image tab of the properties palate. (It can be
> deleted but it 
> comes right back--spooky.)  This is where the
> absolute path is 
> located. The best I can  do is paste the name of the
> image into the 
> "Link to file" field.  This works after running the
> script:
> 
>    set the itemdelimiter to "/"
>    set the defaultfolder to item 1 to -2 of the
> filename of this stack 
> --deletes the last item of the filename.
> 
> But I would now like to delete the "Link to file"
> field in the image 
> tab of the properties palate. Does this window
> display in image 
> property? If so what is it called? I want to set it
> to "empty".
> 
> Jim

Hi Jim,

Have a look at the 'filename' entry in the Transcript
Dictionary. Basically, you can clear the filename with
  set the filename of image "Foobar" to empty

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

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"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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