d83_sven_a@tekno.chalmers.se (Sven (Sciz) Axelsson) (06/14/89)
I'm sure this has been out on the net before, but since I missed it then - can someone please thell me how to get a file's full pathname given the information returned by SFGetFile? Code-examples in any language would be appreciated. Thanx +-------------------------+--------------------------------+------------------+ | Sven Axelsson | d83_sven_a@tekno.chalmers.se | DISCLAIMER: | | dep:t of Linguistics | (^^ best ^^) | | | univ. of Gothenburg | dlv_sa@hum.gu.se | This is not | | SWEDEN | usdsa@seguc21.bitnet | a disclaimer. | +-------------------------+--------------------------------+------------------+
cep@apple.com (Christopher Pettus) (06/15/89)
The newly-released TN 238 describes the appropriate procedure, with
appropriate caveats; please e-mail me if you are interested in a (MS Word) copy.
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(408) 974-0004 | I: A Mine of Jewels and Gemskent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg) (06/15/89)
In article <819@tekno.chalmers.se> d83_sven_a@tekno.chalmers.se (Sven (Sciz) Axelsson) writes: >I'm sure this has been out on the net before, but since I missed it then - >can someone please thell me how to get a file's full pathname given the >information returned by SFGetFile? Yes, it went by recently, and no, I didn't read it closely either, BUT, I have just done it. Not sure I did it the best way, but here it is: Call PBGetCatInfo a bunch of times. You will have to fill in one of those ugly parameter blocks, but each time you will get back in ioDirParID the dirID of the parent directory. Stuff that back into ioDirID and call PBGetCatInfo again. Keep calling until the parent is 1--you are now at the root. Each time collect one more name in the path in the string you supply via ioNamePtr. Line the strings up in a row and you have a path. Now, what you can do with it I know less. About *my* recent question of how to find out the directory of the currently selected file in SFGetFile at hook time. Yes, -1 * SFSaveDisk is the volume and CirDirStore is the dirID. That works. What I don't know is a good way to get from there to opening the currently selected file with OpenResFile. The earlier paragraph indicates some of what I have been going through. Right now I am fighting with SetVol, trying to call it with each name in the path as a partial path name. I guess I could call it once with the whole path--but I am afraid of the 255 character limit. I am also looking into PBHSetVol wondering whether it will save me some steps, but I suspect I need to somehow assure an open WD and on and on... I'm having fun. Kent Borg kent@lloyd.uucp or ...!husc6!lloyd!kent