did "the filename" changed from 2.8 to 2.9?

[Klaus Major]

Hi Tiemo,

> Hi there,
>
> With Rev 2.8 I have build a simple code to get the path to a  
> subfolder of my
> app, which worked fine in 2.8. It looks like this:
>
>        put the filename of me into tPathApp -- 2.9: /Volumes/myApp/
>        set the itemdelimiter to slash
>       if the platform = "MacOS" then
>            delete item -4 to -1 of tPathApp -- 2.9: empty
>        else
>            delete item -1 of tPathApp
>        end if
>    put tPathApp & "/pics/" into tPathPic -- 2.9: /pics/
>
>
>
> Migrating my stack to 2.9 my code doesn't work anymore on Mac.  
> tPathApp
> contains just "/pics/" and not: /Volumes/myApp/pics/ what I wanted  
> it to be,
> where I am not surprised, when reading my code now. What the hell  
> did I
> wanted to delete with item -4 to -1 from the filename :)? Why did it  
> worked
> under 2.8 and why doesn't it work under 2.9 anymore? I am completely
> puzzled. Btw. On Win it does work on 2.9 as on 2.8. Because I don't  
> have a
> Mac available right now, testing is really hard.

Works fine here.
We use it in our runtimes to set the path to externals manually and  
did not have any problems.

> Can anybody shed some light on this mystery?
>
> Thank you

OK, tit for tat :-)
Could you please run this line on Windows in the messagebox and see if  
this works OK?:

revmail "klaus at major-k.de",, "üäöüäüßßÜÄÖ","üäöüäüßßÜÄÖ"

I get "glibberish" in Outlook here :-/


Best

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de