Re: answer file

Scott Raney (raney@metacard.com)
Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:50:04 -0700 (MST)

On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Simon Lord wrote:

> I'd like to open a dialog box using the "answer file" script but set the
> path to a directory other than the current one. So, being in the
> /usr/simon/MetaCard directory I'd like to do something like "answer file
> ([optionalPath],"Please select a file") with "*.txt".
> Can I do this?

You can do this by setting the "directory" property to the directory
you want to start at before doing the "answer file" and then setting
it back to the original directory afterwards.
Regards,
Scott

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