Custom Desktop Folders

[Ray]

Mike - I've eliminated all spaces in the path but thanks, that's always 
a good thing to check.

At this point nothing I do flips the Attributes from "A" to "HSA". I've 
changed the minus to a plus sign and tried Klaus' concatenation syntax 
but still no change in the Attributes.

Maybe I should also be changing the visibility of the file first. When I 
set the folder icon manually the system does that.  Do you know of a way 
to change visibility via the shell function?

On 4/16/2015 11:05 AM, Mike Bonner wrote:
> oh yep, and as klaus says, if theres a space somewhere in the path, you'll
> need to force quotes around it, or use shortfilepath() to obviate the need.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Klaus major-k <klaus at major-k.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ray,
>>
>> did you try with QUOTES?
>>
>>> Am 16.04.2015 um 23:00 schrieb Ray <ray at linkit.com>:
>>>
>>> Klaus - thanks for the idea.  Just to check my method of concatenation,
>> the exact command I'm using is:
>>>       get shell("attrib -HSA "&desktopIniPath&"")   -- where
>> desktopIniPath is the path to the file
>>
>> get shell("attrib -HSA "& QUOTE & desktopIniPath & QUOTE)
>>
>>> It doesn't work and I see no change in the file's Attributes, Type or
>> Size.  Livecode returns nothing in the result.
>>> ...
>> Best
>>
>> Klaus
>>
>> --
>> Klaus Major
>> http://www.major-k.de
>> klaus at major-k.de
>>
>>
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