AW: ask file different behavior on Win7

Tiemo Hollmann TB toolbook at kestner.de
Mon Mar 15 05:15:53 EDT 2010


Hi Mark,

yep, that does the trick.
That’s strange, using on Windows the Unix-Slashes instead of the Windows
backslashes.
So I'll report it in the QCC as a bug

Thanks for your idea
Tiemo

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution-
> bounces at lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Mark Schonewille
> Gesendet: Montag, 15. März 2010 09:51
> An: How to use Revolution
> Betreff: Re: ask file different behavior on Win7
> 
> Hi Tiemo,
> 
> That's clearly a bug. It shouldn't be like this. Have you tried
> changing the backslashes in the file path to slashes?
> 
> --
> Best regards,
> 
> Mark Schonewille
> 
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> Op 15 mrt 2010, om 09:38 heeft Tiemo Hollmann TB het volgende
> geschreven:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> >
> > when using: ask file "foo" with tFile
> >
> > tFile may be: "C:\foo\foo.txt"
> >
> > Win XP opens the file dialog, showing as location the folder of the
> > given
> > tFile (C:\foo\) and prompting for the filename as in tFile (foo.txt)
> >
> > Win 7 opens the file dialog, showing as location my standalone folder
> > (C:\program files\blabla\mystandalone.exe) and prompting for the
> > filename
> > with the full path and filename (C:\foo\foo.txt) This behavior is
> very
> > irritating, because you see another folder, as the file is located.
> > I use it
> > for writing a file afterwards. It works because of the full file
> > path , but
> > you don't get what you see.
> >
> >
> >
> > Is this change Win 7 standard or is it a Rev thing or do I oversee
> > anything?
> >
> > Thanks for any hints
> >
> > Tiemo
> 
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