Open .textclipping file in Rev?

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sun Jul 9 00:13:47 EDT 2006


Garrett Hylltun wrote:
 > J. Landman Gay wrote:
 >> Garrett Hylltun wrote:
 >>> Rev 2.6.1 / OS X
 >>>
 >>> Greetings,
 >>>
 >>> Does anyone know how on earth to open a .textclipping file in Rev?
 >>
 >> Like this:
 >>
 >>  put getResource(theFilePath,"TEXT",256) into theClipText
 >>
 >
 > Thank you Jacqueline :-)

You're welcome, but I should probably have mentioned that clipping files 
often have long file names of more than 32 characters, which means the 
names get internally hashed by the OS. When that happens, you'll hit the 
problem where Rev thinks the file isn't "found".

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com



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