specialFolderPath

[francof]

Hi there,
That's my problem:
have a button to choose a file, into the mouseUp event I have this

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on mouseUp
        put specialFolderPath("Documents") into tFilePath
  
   answer file "Please choose a file"

   if the result is not "cancel" then
      put it into tFilename
      put url ("file:" & tFilename) into field "text"
      end if
end mouseUp

in tFilePath I find the correct path (the system folder Documents), but the file selection window show me the last folder opened.
what's wrong?

thanks for your attention
franco

[Klaus]

Hola Franco,

1. welcome to the forum!

2. You are only putting your path to the documents folder into a variable but do not use it!
This is an extra parameter for the ANSWER XXX dialog:
...
put specialFolderPath("Documents") into tFilePath
answer file "Please choose a file" WITH tFilePath
...
Will do what you want.


Best

Klaus

[dave.kilroy]

Woa Klaus but you're fast! I was just in the process of replying to Franco when I noticed your answer popping up - I'll have to type super-extra-fast in future

[francof]

ciao Klaus,
1) thanks for the welcome.
2) and for your help, it works great. seeing your suggestion I realized how much was obvious: I was not using the specialFolderPath.... D'oh!

hi Dave, you came the second.... try again

bye franco