Re: [MacPerl-Forum] Droplet Creation Woes....

[robinmcf@altern.org]

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>Greenblatt & Seay wrote: >Does this imply that code could be added to the droplet, perhaps via a >library routine, that would allow a droplet to simulate updating itself >with the target's new path, in effect the way an alias does?
>From Mac::Files.pm:
FSMakeFSSpec VREF, DIRID, NAME Creates a file system specification record from a volume number, directory ID, and name. This call never returns a path name.
- sounds like what you're looking for but I remember reading somewhere (Power and Ease), that the file spec created by this lasts only for the duration of the script, but my memeory is a tad hazy - (throwing the discussion open to the floor) anyone better informed? --============_-1246413387==_ma============ Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="us-ascii"
>Greenblatt & Seay wrote:
>Does this imply that code could be added to the droplet, perhaps via a
>library routine, that would allow a droplet to simulate updating itself
>with the target's new path, in effect the way an alias does?

>From Mac::Files.pm:

FSMakeFSSpec VREF, DIRID, NAME	
Creates a file system specification record from a volume number, directory ID, and name. This call never returns a path name. 

- sounds like what you're looking for but I remember reading somewhere (Power and Ease), that the file spec created by this lasts only for the duration of the script, but my memeory is a tad hazy - (throwing the discussion open to the floor) anyone better informed?
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