Problem with reading Preferences file

[Klaus on-rev]

Hi Charles,

Am 13.11.2011 um 19:14 schrieb Charles Szasz:

> I am able to set up Preferences for my app. But the following script in the preOpenStack will NOT retrieve the data Preferences.  Here is my script:
> 
> IF the platform is "MacOS" then 
>      if there is a file (specialFolderPath(26) & "/" & "mileage_prefs") then
>         put url ("binfile:" & specialFolderPath("preferences") & "/" & "mileage_prefs") into tPrefs

## at this point tPrefs is definitively NOT an array!

## So using ARRAY syntax will give empty values!

>         put tPrefs["name"] into field "name" of card "one" of stack "mileage report"
>         put tPrefs["name"] into field "name" of card id 1002 of stack "prefs"
>   end if
> end if

Same for Windows!

> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!

How did you save that prefs file?
Of course you need to go "the other way round" when reading the file!

> Charles Szasz

Best

Klaus

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