file name or dir changed from the desktop

[Scott Morrow]

Thanks all,

(Mark, I haven't switched to rev 2.6 yet which may explain why < 
SpankUser > doesn't work here.  :  )

>
-Scott Morrow

Elementary Software
(Now with 20% less chalk dust !)
web     http://elementarysoftware.com/
email   scott at elementarysoftware.com

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Recently -Eric Chatonet, Mark Wieder & Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:

> That's a bad user behaviour (probably rare) but...
> I don't know (may be others will) how to get the information from the 
> desktop manager but when an user saves, you could check first if the 
> file does exists and act accordingly.
> Eric Chatonet.
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> So Smart Software

> At 3:13 AM -0700 6/30/2005, Scott Morrow wrote:
>> Although changing the file name of an open file seems like a bad 
>> idea, I'm sure one of my users will do it and then get confused when 
>> their  newly named file doesn't contain the most recent changes.   I 
>> noticed that Appleworks 6 (OSX) doesn't have a problem with the file 
>> name being changed.
>
> It's a design flaw that goes back to HyperCard. HC and Rev alike use 
> hardcoded file paths, rather than filesystem specs. (It's worth noting 
> that some OS X applications do this too and exhibit similar problems.)
>
> In the case of Rev, there's some excuse for it, since a file path is a 
> simple string (and thus can be dealt with easily in Transcript). But 
> it does have the effect that if you change a file's path while it's 
> open, either by renaming it or moving it, things break. I'm not sure 
> there's a good workaround.
> -- 
> jeanne a. e. devoto ~ revolution at jaedworks.com
> http://www.jaedworks.com


> on ChangeFileNameBehindMyBack
>   Spank User
> end ChangeFileNameBehindMyBack
>
> -- 
> -Mark Wieder