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From: RADSOFT@APPLELINK.APPLE.COM (Richard Eames)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Problem with pathnames
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Date: 18 Jul 89 19:55:17 GMT
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In article <281@opus.NMSU.EDU> lrasmuss@dante.nmsu.edu (Linda Rasmussen) 
writes:
> Can anyone help me with an (apparently)Fsimple problem concerning
> pathnames to external applications?  I am using the commands
> 
>    open application
>    open "document" with application
>    open "adisk:afile:aaplication"
> 
> in button scripts, and HC seems unable to remember or use pathnames, 
> either from the Home Stack cards, or from the scripts I provide.  Hence,
> each time I reopen HC and use the buttons I have to tell it where the
> applications are.  It *usually* remembers during a single session.


Okay, if you have given if the pathname in a script, HyperCard does not 
store it in the Homestack--It only does that if it puts up the standard 
SFGetFile dialog.  One way around this is to manually put the pathname 
into the homestack.  Like this:

If the Original Script was:

On OpenMe
   put "My  Hard Disk:My Folder:My Application" into myPath
   lock screen
   push card
   go to card <<Whatever the name of that card is>> of stack home
   put myPath after field <<Don't know the name of the field>>
   pop card
   open MyPath
End OpenMe


--From that point, you should be able to just use the application name.


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