revCopyFile : compiler error

[Edwin Gore]

Really not sure who things work on the Mac, but I noticed that you are trying to copy a path. SHouldn't that be done with revCopyFolder?

>----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
>From: Romain Lafourcade
><lafourcade.romain at numericable.fr>
>To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>Sent: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 19:36:41
>
>>revCopyFile uses an Applescript and as I found to
>my cost, there are
>>many undocumented changes between the AppleScript
>of OS 9 and that of
>>OS X :-(
>
>>If the files are small enough to fit into memory,
>you could try using
>>get URL and then put URL to re-save into the new
>location. if the files
>>are too big, you could still use open/close, read
>& write commands to
>>copy the file yourself.
>
>>Alternatively, find the AppleScript that
>revCopyFile uses, test it in
>>the AppleScript Script Editor and put it back into
>your stack for use
>>with OS 9.
>
>
>Hum, it seems there's a problem somewhere.
>
>I know nothing to Applescript but I've looked at
>the AppleScript Language
>Reference and found no relevent info.
>
>Here is my script, it is almost the same as in the
>Docs :
>
>on mouseUp
>  revCopyFile "/Eddie Henderson/Desktop
>Folder/File","/Eddie
>Henderson/Documents/"
>  put the result into fld "Resultat"
>end mouseUp
>
>... and the result is "execution error".
>
>I wanted to know if for some reason the file wasn't
>understood well by Rev
>so I tried this other script (found on the
>revCopyFile page in the docs)
>with the same file :
>
>on mouseUp
>  Put URL "file:/Eddie Henderson/Desktop
>Folder/File" into URL "file:/Eddie
>Henderson/Documents/File"
>  put the result into fld "Resultat"
>end mouseUp
>
>This one works good (no result, the file is copied)
>but my machine makes the
>machine gun noise that mean "Heavy CPU usage". It's
>not a good sign since
>the user is supposed to copy screen wide images...
>
>Did anyone succesfully used this revCopyFile
>command ?
>
>Romain (PPC 8600 or G4 / Mac OS 9 / Rev 1.1.1)
>
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