PiMZ PropSave Xtra: can't open saved file

[SimonBaum webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

hello

i would like to use PiMZ PropSave Xtra but unfortunately i can't open the files that i saved to the harddisk. i used it in authoring mode with director 8.5 on mac os 9.2.

this is one example: the file "save1" is saved on the harddisk but i cannot open it, with file type description (four letter-file type?) it doesn't work either.

on mouseUp
myList=[#one:"cat",#two:"dog"]
savePropsToDisk(the moviePath & "save1", myList)
end

on mouseUp
myList=[#one:"cat",#two:"dog"]
savePropsToDisk(the moviePath & "save1", myList,[#type:"TEXT"])
end

is there anyone who has experience with the propsave xtra? thanks for your answer.

simon baumgartner

[Desmond22 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Try adding .prp to the saved filename:

savePropsToDisk(the moviePath & "save1.prp", myList)


I?ve used the propsave extra to save data like this:

on mousedown me

tname=member("fname").text
tfilename=the moviePath & tname & ".prp"
e=savePropsToDisk(tfilename, Lmatrix)
if e<> void then alert "error"

end

Lmatrix is a list I want to save.
Fname is an editable text field.
E checks to make sure there was no error when saving the file.

I learn?t how to use propsave from a book called Director 8.5 the complete reference by David Mennenoh. I highly recommend it.

Des

[mango]

I recently had a problem with propsave. I solved it by downloading a newer
version of the xtra. changed from 1.0.3 to 1.0.5.

If that don´t work for you then you can try the vlist xtra from
[url]www.updatestage.com[/url] It can do as much as propsave for free. If you pay for
it you can compress and encrypt the data to be saved.


Mango