Saving into invisible folders ?

[Peter M. Brigham]

On Apr 16, 2013, at 1:48 AM, Richmond wrote:

> So, I have a stack with a single card containing:
> 
> 1. A group "PAIR".
> 
> 2. A button "Button" containing the following script:
> 
> on mouseUp
>   set the defaultFolder to specialFolderPath("Home")
>   create folder ".myMuck"
>   set the defaultFolder to specialFolderPath(".myMuck")
>   export snapshot from group "PAIR" to file "PAIR.png" as PNG
> end mouseUp
> 
> this all using RevMedia 4.0 alpha on Ubuntu Linux 12.04 (don't ask!).
> 
> The script creates the folder quite happily, but then does not
> save the snapshot into the folder (presumably because Livecode cannot 'see'
> a folder with a dot prefix).
> 
> I have run the same script, creating a visible folder "myMuck" and the snapshot
> is saved.

AFAIK, specialFolderPath() can only take one of a specified list of arguments, and ".my Muck" is not one of them. Does it not work to do this: 
   put specialFolderPath("Home") into hFolder
   put hFolder & ".myMuck/" into muckFolder
   set the defaultFolder to muckFolder
   export snapshot from group "PAIR" to file "PAIR.png" as PNG
??

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
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