File name of stack weirdness

[Chris Carroll-Davis]

Good suggestion Klaus!

Thanks for the tip.  BTW, I've not checked this on Windows yet.   
Eventually I'll want this app to run on PC.  I suppose I might also  
have to put in a check there too?

Chris


On 7 Jun 2005, at 13:03, Klaus Major wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
>
>> Klaus -
>>
>> Thanks for looking at this.  The problem I have is not the end of  
>> the string (bundle path) but the beginning!  On my G5 it correctly  
>> returns "/Volumes/Hard_Disk_Name/...", but on G3 it starts with  
>> the application root, i.e. it doesn't return the full path to the  
>> HD root.
>>
>> The app happily works without this full path, but the problem is,  
>> I need to pass the full path to another (SuperCard) app.
>>
>
> oh, sorry, yes, i misunderstood your problem.
>
> But this can also be easily worked around, looks like this is a  
> "Tiger" feature
> (putting "/Volumes/Bootvolume/" before everypath on the boot volume.
>
> ...
> put the filename of this stack into fn
> set the itemdel to "/"
> if item 2 of fn <> "Volumes" then
>    put "/Volumes" & line 1 of the volumes & "/" before fn
> end if
> ...
>
> "the volumes" returns a list of all harddisks and the fiurst line  
> will contain your
> "boot volume"
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
>> !?!
>>
>> Chris
>>
>
> Regards
>
> Klaus Major
> klaus at major-k.de
> http://www.major-k.de
>
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