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From: leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: SFPGetFile Question
Message-ID: <226000045@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 8 Jan 89 20:03:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!leonardr    Jan  8 14:03:00 1989


chao@polya.Stanford.EDU(Chih Chao) writes in comp.sys.mac.programmer

>I am using my own dlgHook in a SFPGetFile call.  I need to access the
>vRefNum of the current file being selected in the Standard Open File
>Dialog box.  I know it's file name from sfReply.fname but 
>sfReply.vRefNum doesn't seem to be giving me the right information.
>
	this does seem to be the case, I wish I knew why??

>How can I get the vRefNum of the current file before the user chooses 
>"open" or "cancel"?
>
	I have not tried it, but you might try checking the lowmem global,
CurDirStore and see if that has the proper value stored there..
	I would be curious to know if that works, or how you finally solve the 
problem, so please let us know!


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