File IO won't delete txt file

[Eelco Heuvelmans webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hi,
I just wrote this script so that when I change something in a list in the projector, this list is saved in an external txt file..
the problem only is, the delete function of File IO doesn't work properly (Or I'm doing something wrong..).
But when I don't include the delete function, the list is correctly written to the file, but when the new list is shorter, it just overwrites the number of characters needed and leeves the remaining characters intact...

example:

old list: [1,2,3,4,5,6], new list: [1,2]

when I write the new list to the text file the result looks like this:

[1,2]3,4,5,6], but 3,4,5,6] should actually be gone..

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong??

Tnx

Eelco
--
This is my script:

global list

on writedown

fName=the moviepath&"lists\data.txt"
tekst=list.string
io = new(Xtra "fileIO")
io.openFile(fName, 0)
io.deleteFile(fName)
io.createFile(fName)
io.openFile(fName, 0)
io.writeString(text)
io.closeFile()
io = VOID

castLib("fieldstorage").save(the moviePath & "fieldstorage.cst")

end

[Christian Grass]

seems strange to me. your script looks correct. just in case you won't get
a workaround, try the "File4Xtra"

[url]http://kblab.net/xtras/[/url]

it's a free xtra and can do everything that the fileIO xtra can do, also
has more functions like creating folders etc.



On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 10:55:32 +0000 (UTC), Eelco Heuvelmans
<webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I just wrote this script so that when I change something in a list in
> the projector, this list is saved in an external txt file..
> the problem only is, the delete function of File IO doesn't work
> properly (Or I'm doing something wrong..).
> But when I don't include the delete function, the list is correctly
> written to the file, but when the new list is shorter, it just
> overwrites the number of characters needed and leeves the remaining
> characters intact...
>
> example:
>
> old list: [1,2,3,4,5,6], new list: [1,2]
>
> when I write the new list to the text file the result looks like this:
>
> [1,2]3,4,5,6], but 3,4,5,6] should actually be gone..
>
> Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong??
>
> Tnx
>
> Eelco
> --
> This is my script:
>
> global list
>
> on writedown
>
> fName=the moviepath&"lists\data.txt"
> tekst=list.string
> io = new(Xtra "fileIO")
> io.openFile(fName, 0)
> io.deleteFile(fName)
> io.createFile(fName)
> io.openFile(fName, 0)
> io.writeString(text)
> io.closeFile()
> io = VOID
>
> castLib("fieldstorage").save(the moviePath & "fieldstorage.cst")
>
> end
>
>
>

[Ned]

you can't delete an opened file :

fName=the moviepath&"lists\data.txt"
tekst=list.string
io = new(Xtra "fileIO")
-- io.openFile(fName, 0) -- here
io.deleteFile(fName)
io.createFile(fName)
io.openFile(fName, 0)
io.writeString(text)
io.closeFile()
io = VOID

hth
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-- Ned
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| Hi,
| I just wrote this script so that when I change something in a list in the
projector, this list is saved in an external txt file..
| the problem only is, the delete function of File IO doesn't work properly
(Or I'm doing something wrong..).
| But when I don't include the delete function, the list is correctly
written to the file, but when the new list is shorter, it just overwrites
the number of characters needed and leeves the remaining characters
intact...

[johnAq webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

A quick look suggests that your line

io.deleteFile(fName)

is incorrect (I don't know why it doesn't give error), try

io.delete()


hth

johnAq

[Eelco Heuvelmans webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

tnx, it worked!