exists(file on my computer) not doing very well

[Klaus major-k]

Hi Richmond,

Am 01.09.2014 um 21:21 schrieb Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>:

> In a card of my upcoming "Grendel" for Anglo-Saxon, Gothic and other warped
> Germanic languages/writing-systems I have this script:
> 
> on preOpenCard
>   set the title of stack "grendel" to the short name of this card
> ##  if exists(url("file:" & "GrendelBackUp.rtf")) then

not sure about the syntax for EXISTS and FILE, but -> url("file:"...) is surely not the way to go!
Why not just use: if there is a file xyz...?

>      put "exists"
>      set the RTFText of fld "store" to URL ("file:" & "GrendelBackUp.rtf")
>   else
>      put "nope"
>      end if
> end preOpenCard
> 
> Now the file GrendelBackUp.rtf is present where I saved it earlier, from the stack,
> in the default folder.
> 
> So would be glad if somebody could tell me why I keep getting "nope" in my Message Box.

See above!

> Richmond.

Best

Klaus
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