Message Box ?

[Devin Asay]

On Mar 22, 2006, at 3:40 PM, thulme wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm a newbie reading through Dan Shafer's ebook. My question has to  
> do with
> page 273  of the book which states that typing (open file  
> "MyToDo.txt") into
> the message box will create a file if none exisits. Nothing gets  
> created
> when I do this. All that happens is the line I entered gets  
> highlighted. No
> file created and no error message is displayed in the result frame.  
> I have
> entered other commands and they work ok. Can anyone (Dan) explain  
> what I'm
> doing wrong?

One common reason for this to happen is that you do not have write  
permission for the defaultFolder. (It's more of a problem on Unix and  
Mac OS X systems.) On startup, the defaultFolder property is always  
set to the folder that contains the Revolution application. Not all  
users on a system will have write access to that folder. Try changing  
the defaultFolder to a folder that you do have write permission for  
(I'm assuming OSX here):

set the defaultFolder to /Users/myusername/Desktop/

Then try it again. Chances are it will work this time. If this  
doesn't fix it, try switching to the multi-line message box and enter:

openFile "myfile.txt"
put the result

Then hit the enter key. If there is an error 'the result' should  
contain information about the error.

HTH

Devin

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University