Hi Stephen, The docs are wrong. RevCopyFile uses AppleScript, not the shell, on Mac OS X.
-- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 See what you get with only a small contribution. All our LiveCode downloads are listed at http://qery.us/zr On 5 okt 2011, at 23:21, stephen barncard wrote: > Thanks Mark. See below. > > On 5 October 2011 13:07, Mark Schonewille > <m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I believe this progress indicator shouldn't be visible at all. It is >> AppleScript and in my view it isn't done very well. The progress indicator >> you see is part of the Finder, not LiveCode. >> > > Mark, it's not applescript (fortunately) any more except for OS 9 which is > no longer supported by Rev. > > From the docs: > > On Mac OS systems, it uses AppleScript; on OS X, Windows and Unix systems, > it uses the shell function. > > I didn't know this either until I read the docs. > > And I *really did* see it, lurking behind. It's incredibly fast, which > Applescript is not and why I'd rather not 'roll my own' - which could be > slower. Also I don't think read and write commands handle resource forks or > packages properly. And yes I know it's NOT a livecode routine, but as it's > a shell call - it should have some option for this. I'm calling it a bug > for now. > > This stack takes a list of files by file suffix (using Ben's non-recursive > file and folder walker), does a second managed pass and creates categorical > folders named by the suffix chosen, then moves the chosen files to the > folders. Incredibly fast. Works great except for the progress dialog that > hides. > It's a great progress indicator and only shows on bigger file transfers. > Small ones don't show. As it should be. > > I created this to try and clean up folders of misc crap on my > desktop<http://fulton.barncard.com/stax/filesorter.png>and doing this > by hand was tedious and inaccurate. > > the UI is funky but hey, it's made for me.... > > thanks > > is this thing useful to anyone else, BTW? > > sqb _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
