Problem with reading Preferences file

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Charles,

This doesn't solve the problem on Windows, but try specialfolderpath("preferences") instead of specialfolderpath(26) In Mac OS X.

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On 13 nov 2011, at 19:57, Charles Szasz wrote:

> Klaus,
> 
> I left out this bit code: (put arrayDecode(tPrefs)into tPrefs) So, my code looks like this:
> 
> IF the platform is "MacOS" then 
>      if there is a file (specialFolderPath(26) & "/" & "mileage_prefs") then
>         put url ("binfile:" & specialFolderPath("preferences") & "/" & "mileage_prefs") into tPref
> 
>         put arrayDecode(tPrefs)into tPrefs
> 
>                  put tPrefs["name"] into field "name" of card id 1002 of stack "prefs"
>         put tPrefs["name"] into field "name" of card "one" of stack "mileage report"
>  end if
> end if
> 
> IF the platform is "win32" then
>      if there is a file (specialFolderPath(26) & "/" & "mileage_prefs") then 
>         put url ("binfile:" & specialFolderPath(26) & "/" & "mileage_prefs") into tPrefs
> 
>         put arrayDecode(tPrefs) into tPrefs
>         -- now fill in all my data...
>         put tPrefs["name"] into field "name" of card id 1002 of stack "prefs"
>      end if
> 
> end if
> 
> 
> 
> Charles Szasz
> cszasz at mac.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
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