mobile: pick image without importing?

[J. Landman Gay]

On 1/24/18 2:53 PM, hh via use-livecode wrote:
>> Do we have a way to obtain a file path for an image on mobile?
>> I see mobilePickImage, but it insists on importing a copy of the
>> image, and what I'm really after is a reference to the image file.
> 
> Why not set the defaultFolder and use "the files"?
> Or use the files(<targetFolder>)?

That's the usual way, but on mobile you can only access the files in 
your app's sandbox. MobilePickImage allows the user to access external 
images via the OS API but as far as I know it does not share file 
locations with the calling app for security reasons.

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