file size

[mikedoub at gmail.com]

‎To be technically correct divide by 1024.  

Mike

  Original Message  
From: larry at significantplanet.org
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 8:21 PM
To: How to use LiveCode
Reply To: How to use LiveCode
Subject: Re: file size

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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