file size

[larry at significantplanet.org]

Hi Mike,
good point, but actually my line is:
put the length of URL tFile into field "myResult"

because I want the actual number and not how many kb.
Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <mikedoub at gmail.com>
To: <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>; "How to use LiveCode" 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: file size


> ‎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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