#90 Frontier FSRef Migration 2 - file.delete - breaks script

[Anonymous]

Hi,

just tested the FSRef Migration 2 with my workflow - great to see long file
names.

I might have found a bug:

file.delete seems to break out of try block

The files are on a mounted image.

Regards

Tom
spivey@nureg.de

[Thomas Creedon]

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Hello Tom,

Is the image one created by Disk Utility and is it read/write?

I just tried the following on a read/write image and it
worked here...

try {
file.delete ( "Test Image:Untitled.txt" );
speaker.beep ( )}

The behavior you describe seems like you're working with a
read only or compressed image.

Could you add an else to your try and tell me the error
returned? Something like...

try {
file.delete ( "Test Image:Untitled.txt" );
speaker.beep ( )}
else {
scriptError ( tryError )}

I tried this on a compressed image and got a write
permission error, which is to be expected as it is locked.

In the Finder could you bring up a Finder window for your
disk image and look to see if there is a no write icon in
the lower left corner of the window?

Thank you for the bug report.

Toodle-loooooooo.........
creecode

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Hi Creecode,

I works from Quickscript, however if I create a script like the following it
breaks the whole script and no else block is executed...
This also happens on other occasion, if an Applescript executed within
Frontier returns values that Frontier doesn't like. Maybe the return value is
not properly casted?

local ( imagepath = "Scratch:image.jpg" )
try
file.delete( imagepath )
else
msg( tryerror )

The disk image is read/write and I use it to create temporary image files that I
import into FileMaker...
The Frontier.root is from DP2...

Cheers

Tom

[Thomas Creedon]

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Hey Tom,

I am unable to reproduce the problem you are having. I used
the following script without error.

local ( imagepath = "Scratch:image.jpg" );
try {
file.delete ( imagepath );
speaker.beep ( )}
else {
msg ( tryError )}

Scratch is a Disk Utility ( v10.5.6 ) created read/write image.

I'm running Mac OS X v10.4.7 w/latest system updates. Power
Mac G4 Dual 1 GHz. Frontier Developer Preview 2 and Frontier
FSRef Migration Preview 2.

Please tell me about your setup. If the disk image isn't to
large perhaps you could send it to me and I could test with
that image. Or perhaps you could create an image with just
one picture that you have verified doesn't work and send
that to me.

The FSRef-ized version of the Frontier application that you
are using, did you compile it yourself, or are you using an
Frontier FSRef Migration Preview 2 that you downloaded from
our website?

Toodle-loooooooo.......
creecode

[Thomas Creedon]

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I have found an instance where file.delete breaks the script
and I'm looking into it.