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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Launching application returned in an SFReply record.
Keywords: Launch,directory,SFReply
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Date: 15 Aug 90 14:17:34 GMT
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In article <25810@cs.yale.edu> braun-eric@CS.YALE.EDU (Eric E. Braun) writes:
>Im having difficulty implementing the transfer function...  Works
>Fine when I give _launch the full pathname of the application to launch
>but when I get the file name from SFGetFile tack a ':' onto the front
>of it and then call PBOpenWD (which returns with no err condition) with:
> pb.ioWDDirID  = CurDirStore
> pb.ioRefNum   = SFReply.vRefNum
I assume you mean pb.ioVRefnum-- ioRefnum != ioVRefNum
> pb.ioWDProcID = my application's signature

I don't think you are supposed to set ioWDProcID to anything but 'ERIK' any
more, but that isn't your problem.  You need to not only open the directory,
you need to SetVol to it.
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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