answer file tMsg with tPath

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Fri Jul 11 17:35:01 EDT 2003


> but it seems that defaultPath actually expects the path to end in a 
> filename not a folder because this works:
> 
> put specialFolderPath("Documents")  & "/myfile" into tPath 
> answer file "select a file" with tFile

Actually it probably needs to end in a "/", since specialFolderPath()
returns folder paths without trailing slashes.

Try this:

  answer file "Select a file:" with (specialFolderPath("Documents")&"/")

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 





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