h is the hidden attribute. so +h should hide it. Weird. Going to try it real quick (win 7)..
Ok. I got the attribs to set by doing them one at a time. Not sure why 2 at once doesn't work. I also read that the folder must be set to read only. SO I did attrib +r to the folder and poof. Icon. On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Ray <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike - I've eliminated all spaces in the path but thanks, that's always a > good thing to check. > > At this point nothing I do flips the Attributes from "A" to "HSA". I've > changed the minus to a plus sign and tried Klaus' concatenation syntax but > still no change in the Attributes. > > Maybe I should also be changing the visibility of the file first. When I > set the folder icon manually the system does that. Do you know of a way to > change visibility via the shell function? > > On 4/16/2015 11:05 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > >> oh yep, and as klaus says, if theres a space somewhere in the path, you'll >> need to force quotes around it, or use shortfilepath() to obviate the >> need. >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Klaus major-k <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Ray, >>> >>> did you try with QUOTES? >>> >>> Am 16.04.2015 um 23:00 schrieb Ray <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>> Klaus - thanks for the idea. Just to check my method of concatenation, >>>> >>> the exact command I'm using is: >>> >>>> get shell("attrib -HSA "&desktopIniPath&"") -- where >>>> >>> desktopIniPath is the path to the file >>> >>> get shell("attrib -HSA "& QUOTE & desktopIniPath & QUOTE) >>> >>> It doesn't work and I see no change in the file's Attributes, Type or >>>> >>> Size. Livecode returns nothing in the result. >>> >>>> ... >>>> >>> Best >>> >>> Klaus >>> >>> -- >>> Klaus Major >>> http://www.major-k.de >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
