file size

[larry at significantplanet.org]

Thanks Paul and Alex and Richard,

I ended up using Paul's code:
on mouseUp
   answer file "?"
   put "binfile:" & it into tFile
   put the length of URL tFile / 1000 & "KB" into fld "myResultField"
end mouseUp

It works just great!
Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Hibbert" <paulhibbert at mac.com>
To: "How to use LiveCode" <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: file size


> Larry,
>
> Try:
>
> on mouseUp
>   answer file "?"
>   put "binfile:" & it into tFile
>   put the length of URL tFile / 1000 & "KB" into fld "myResultField"
> end mouseUp
>
> Paul
>
> On Sep 22, 2014, at 2:29 PM, larry at significantplanet.org wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I know I can use:
>> put the files into field "Current Files"
>>
>> to get the size of a file (in bytes), but is there any way to use "answer 
>> file" or some other way to get the size of just one specific file?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Larry
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