jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto) (04/27/91)
In article <47966@ut-emx.uucp> ben@ut-emx.uucp (Ben Sloan) writes: >I have a script that uses the Import Paint file command. I put the >chosen file name into a variable, say "filename", where it always >is the full path, e.g. "hard disk:hypercard:myfolder:paintfile". > >The problem is that this filename is not the name of the window displaying >the file. If the window goes to the background, I can't pull it back >by saying "show window filename" because the window has only the >name of the file without the path. All you need to do is to get the stack name, given the full path: in other words, you need to get all the text following the last ":" in the pathname. The 2.0 Home stack script has a handy function that will do this for you: lastHCItem delim,theText. Use it like this: put lastHCItem(":",myPathName) into myWindowName There's a lot of handy stuff in the shipping Home stacks that's not adequately documented.... -- ========= jeanne a. e. devoto ======================================== jdevoto@apple.com | You may not distribute this article under a jdevoto@well.sf.ca.us | compilation copyright without my permission. ______________________________________________________________________ Apple Computer and I are not authorized | CI$: 72411,165 to speak for each other. |