newbie: OS X and answer file ?

[tom farrell]

Hi...

Sorry not to have been more clear.

- I have a test/trial/learning stack started.
- I and it are using the OS X platform for now.
- I am using the educator's full version (ie, this isn't a 
limited-version problem).
- I am using "answer file of type" and/or  "answer file with filter" 
along with parameters like "JPEG" or "JPEGPICT" or "GIFf" or 
"JPEGPICTGIFf" to try to display to the user a directory listing in 
which only directories and files of those graphics types are 
displayed.
- I find that there are, for example, files names "abc.jpg" which are 
filtered correctly BUT other files in that same directory, named 
"xyz.jpg", which are NOT filtered correcty.
- It's not a filename-suffix matter (as one might think in the old 
8.3 dos days) because the suffixes are the same AND the non-working 
files have, upon examination in ResEdit, the correct filetype (eg, 
"JPEG").
- So - unless I am overlooking something obvious, which is very 
possible, I don't see how to use "answer file" to consistently yield 
correctly filtered directories, at least in this OS X, graphics-file 
case.
- I'm not (yet?) having trouble *opening* a file, at this point I 
just want a correctly filtered directory to be displayed.

>  Look at the "answer file" command in the Transcript Dictionary.

- yes, I would have RTFM if I'd had one    :-)
- I thought my brief description had shown that I had used the 
correct sytax and parameters as briefly outlined in the dictionary. 
Sorry for the lack of clarity.
- I have tried searching this list's archives.
- I have looked at the "revolution for newbies" bulletin board.
- and generic google searches.

thanks again for any help for which you might have time.

tom

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>From: "Ken Ray" <kray at sonsothunder.com>
>Subject: RE: newbie: OS X and answer file ?
>Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 00:53:55 -0500
>Organization: Sons of Thunder Software
>
>Look at the "answer file" command in the Transcript Dictionary.
>
>Ken Ray
>Sons of Thunder Software
>Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
>Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>
>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  [mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of
>>  tom farrell
>>  Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 11:00 PM
>>  Subject: newbie: OS X and answer file ?
>>
>>  Hi...
>>
>>  I want to allow a Mac OS X user to choose graphics files from a
>>  directory listing.
>>
>>  Is it possible, in OS X, to setup "answer file with filter" or
>>  "answer file of type" in such a way as to actually display as
>>  available jpeg, gif and png files? (where the answer to "Is it
>>  possible" does NOT include opening every file in a directory)
>>
>>  With just a simple use of "answer file of type...", some of the
>>  relevant graphics file are displayed correctly. Many are not. Looking
>>  at some of the non-selectable files (ie, the dimmed/greyed out ones)
>>  in ResEdit shows that they do have seem to have the correct filetype
>>  (JPEG, for example).
>>
>>  Does one have to do by hand what one had hoped "answer file" would do?
>>
>>  thanks in advance for any time you might have for a reply.
>>
>>  tom
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