Problem with answer file(s)

[Graham Samuel]

Thanks to Ian, Klaus and Mark for replying. It seems then that the  
documentation is wrong (out of date). My real example, BTW, was

answer files "Select some KML files" with type "KML Files|kml|TEXT"

and this worked, although I had to guess that the files were of type  
TEXT (as they're kind of simple XML files this seemed the most  
likely). So it seems that the type TEXT has some meaning to the OS.

I would be perfectly happy if there was a simple filter on the  
traditional file extension, but there you are.

Incidentally, I did not expect to see the other (non-kml) files in the  
directory at all, but in fact they are visible but dimmed. Never mind.

Should I submit a bug report (for the documentation)?

Cheers

Graham

On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 15:20:00 +010, Ian Wood <revlist at azurevision.co.uk>  
wrote:

> 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 Tue, 4 Aug 2009 16:20:35 +0200, Klaus Major <klaus at major.on- 
rev.com> wrote:
>
>>>
>
> this is the old Windows-only filter method.
> [...]
>
> The crossplatform way is:
> ...
> answer file myPrompt with TYPE "Revolution Stacks|rev|RSTK"
> ...
>
> Check the docs answer file with TYPE" for more info.
>
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 16:29:00 +0200, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com 
 > wrote:
>
>
>
> answer file "Select..." with type "Revolution Stacks|rev|RSTK"
> answer file "Select..." with type "PNG files|png|PNGf" or type "JPEG
> files|jpeg,jpg|JPEG"
>
On 4 aug 2009, at 16:06, I 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.