use-revolution Digest, Vol 50, Issue 10

[Jonathan Scott]

Howdy,
	Thank you to everyone who pointed me towards my solutions.
	I still don't know exactly what is going on, but here are the  
solutions I figured out after receiving your advice:

openstack not functioning
	I just put in a new card with nothing on it (as the first card in  
the stack).  In it's handler I put in an "on idle" handler that does  
nothing but issue "send 'mouseUp'" statements and then moves the user  
to another card afterward (to a place where there is no "on idle"  
handler).

text files not being written
	The big problem was that text files were actually being written.  I  
just couldn't find them for a few minutes sometimes.  Sometimes I'd  
have to wait a very long time for the files to pop up on the screen.   
My assumption was that the finder's ability to update every viewable  
portion of the hard drive can take a lot of time.  IOW, the file was  
there, it was just that the finder hadn't moved in to update that  
part of the screen yet.  So, my workaround was to have all files be  
saved to a folder on the desktop.  Because the desktop is closer to  
the top of the hierarchical structure, it is probably updated with  
much greater frequency.  I still don't know if this is a good  
decision.  It works though, so I'm happy.

	Thanks again everybody.

On Nov 6, 2007, at 3:00 AM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com  
wrote:

> Hi Jonathan,
>
> Nice to see you here. Welcome to the Rev community.
>
> I am pretty sure that something is wrong with the path. Note that Rev
> paths don't use colons but slashes to delimit the components of the
> path.
>
> Do you see similar problems if you run the following script?
>
> on foo
>    ask file "Save as..."
>    if it is not empty then
>      put it into myFile
>      open file myFile for write
>      write "some string" to file myFile
>      close file myFile
>      put "You can find your file at:" && myFile
>    end if
> end foo
>
> Best regards,
>
> Mark Schonewille