Problem with answer file(s)
Ian Wood
revlist at azurevision.co.uk
Tue Aug 4 10:20:00 EDT 2009
You need look up 'answer file with type' in the dictionary.
As far as I can remember (unreliable!) of previous conversations about
this, filtering in the normal answer file command is dependant on
files having a file type assigned to them by the creating program,
making it nearly useless in OS X because file types are pretty much
deprecated in the OS.
Ian
On 4 Aug 2009, at 15:06, Graham Samuel wrote:
> This seems extremely simple, but I can't get the following example
> to work (the example comes from the Rev dictionary for Rev 3.5.0
> build 870):
>
>> For example, to specify that only Revolution files should appear in
>> the dialog box, use this statement. The description "Revolution
>> files" is visible to the user at the bottom of the dialog, and only
>> files with the extension ".rev" are shown:
>> answer file myPrompt with filter "Revolution files,*.rev"
>
> When I do this on an Intel Mac running Mac OS 10.5.7, the file
> selection box appears but all the files (not just non- .rev files)
> in the directory are dimmed and can't be selected. Same if I use the
> "answer files" version, and also if I substitute "type" for
> "filter". OTOH if I leave out the type/filter part of the statement,
> I get the directory shown with all types of files (of course) and
> the individual files are selectable and the expected list appears in
> the "it" variable.
>
> I just want to see one type of file (not really .rev, but if that
> example works then clearly I can do what I want).
>
> What am I doing wrong? Answer file has existed for a long time, so I
> imagine it's my mistake rather than a bug. I found some some
> correspondence about this in the list archives way back in 2002, but
> nothing I can see more recent.
>
> TIA
>
> Graham
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