Disk space function

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Sun Jun 1 19:50:01 EDT 2003


Good point, Bjornke... although the diskspace only works with the main
hard drive, whereas the other code works to check other disks as well.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Björnke von Gierke
> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 7:18 PM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: Disk space function
> 
> 
> this is fun and all, but why don't you just use the "diskSpace" 
> function build right into RunRev?
> 
> On Montag, Jun 2, 2003, at 00:22 Europe/Zurich, Ken Ray wrote:
> 
> > Scott, you can use AppleScript to get it on the Mac, and 
> use a shell 
> > command in Windows:
> >
> > Windows:
> >
> > on mouseUp
> >   local tSpace
> >   set the hideConsoleWindows to true
> >   put shell("cd c:\ & dir") into tDirList
> >   -- substitute 'd:\' or any other drive you want to test
> >   put line (lineOffset("bytes free",tDirList)) of tDirList into 
> > tSpaceLine
> >   get matchText(tSpaceLine," ([0-9,]*?) bytes free",tSpace)
> >   replace "," with "" in tSpace
> >   -- Now do something with tSpace
> > end mouseUp
> >
> > Mac (appleScript):
> >
> > tell application "Finder"
> >   get the free spaced of disk "Stormwinds"
> > end tell
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > Ken Ray
> > Sons of Thunder Software
> > Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> > Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com
> >> [mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Scott 
> >> Kinder
> >> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 7:08 AM
> >> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> >> Subject: Disk space function
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to make a 'digital tape recorder' and it would 
> be ideal to 
> >> let people know in an updated dialog:
> >>
> >> Current file size of your recording is: 2mb
> >> Space left on your drive is: 20gb
> >>
> >> Looks like you might have to use the detailed directories and just 
> >> add everything up.  Has anyone worked out anything better?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Scott
> >>
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