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    #16
    Re: How to change absolute IFR to relative?

    tbl = table.current()
    fld = tbl.field_get("Badgepix")
    target = fld.value_get()
    target2=ltrim((target), "=filename_decode(")

    Badgepix is an image field reference. Could be BMP or JPG. I want A5 to tell Windows to open the graphic.

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      #17
      Re: How to change absolute IFR to relative?

      This works here.

      Code:
      tbl = table.open("tbl_dummy")
fld = tbl.field_get("Badgepix")
target = fld.value_get()
? target
= =filename_decode("\WINDOWS\Greenstone.bmp")

? file.filename_parse(target,"NE")
= "Greenstone.bmp"
sys_open(file.filename_parse(target,"NE"))
      Opens the bitmap file.
      There can be only one.

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        #18
        Re: How to change absolute IFR to relative?

        Stranger and stranger. I get different kinds of data depending on which directory the graphic is in. So I moved the sample to a subdirectory of the ADB, where the real thing will be.
        Code:
        tbl = table.open("practice")
fld = tbl.field_get("Badgepix")
target = fld.value_get()
? target
= =filename_decode("[exe_folder]\Xrcise\Pix\alarm.bmp")
? file.filename_parse(target,"NE")
= alarm.bmp")
        This looks like it should work - but it doesn't
        Code:
        sys_open((chr(40) + chr(34) + a5.get_path() + "\\"+"pix"+ "\\" + file.filename_parse(target,"NE")))

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          #19
          Re: How to change absolute IFR to relative?

          This works here.

          Code:
          tbl = table.open("practice")
fld = tbl.field_get("Badgepix")
target = fld.value_get()
? target
= =filename_decode("[app_path]\Pix\alarm.bmp")

? file.filename_parse(target,"NE")
= "alarm.bmp"

sys_open(file.filename_parse(target,"NE"))
          If your image directory is under the application directory you don't need the complete path. Alpha looks there first.
          Last edited by Stan Mathews; 05-16-2012, 12:25 PM.
          There can be only one.

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            #20
            Re: How to change absolute IFR to relative?

            Oh dear. I can't figure why you get app_path while I get exe_folder, but that shouldn't matter. The difference between "alarm.bmp" and alarm.bmp is more disconcerting. But how does your Windows know where to find the bmp file, especially since there could be more than one subdirectory?

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              #21
              Re: How to change absolute IFR to relative?

              It is not Windows that knows where to find the file, Alpha does via the Image File Reference field. That's what it's all about. A file reference to an image. After creating two new directories and moving the pic folder down two levels, and resetting the IFR field to the new location ..... (still under the application directory).

              Code:
              tbl = table.open("practice")
fld = tbl.field_get("Badgepix")
target = fld.value_get()
? target
= =filename_decode("[app_path]\gobbledy\gook\Pix\alarm.bmp")

? file.filename_parse(target,"NE")
= "alarm.bmp"


sys_open(file.filename_parse(target,"NE"))
              There can be only one.

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                #22
                Re: How to change absolute IFR to relative?

                A total mystery. Might this be a difference between version 8 and later? Windows 7 and earlier?

                Code:
                tbl = table.open("practice")
fld = tbl.field_get("Badgepix")
target = fld.value_get()
? file.filename_parse(target,"NE")
= alarm.bmp")
sys_open(file.filename_parse(target,"NE"))
' no joy
sys_open("E:\xrcise\Pix\alarm.bmp")
' opens alarm.bmp in iview

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                  #23
                  Re: How to change absolute IFR to relative?

                  It does behave differently under V8.

                  Try

                  Code:
                  sys_open(file.filename_parse(strtran(file.filename_parse(target,"NE"),chr(34)+")",""),"NE"))
                  There can be only one.

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                    #24
                    Re: How to change absolute IFR to relative?

                    sys_open(file.filename_parse(strtran(file.filename_parse(target,"NE"),chr(34)+")",""),"NE"))

                    Works!!! It will take me three days to figure why and how, but it does work. Many thanks.

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                      #25
                      Re: How to change absolute IFR to relative?

                      I got wound up too tight somewhere in there. All you need is

                      sys_open(strtran(file.filename_parse(target,"NE"),chr(34)+")"))
                      There can be only one.

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                        #26
                        Re: How to change absolute IFR to relative?

                        Actually sometimes I need

                        dim photo2dir as C = a5.get_path() + chr(92) + "2011 Badges" + chr(92)

                        So I just used sys_open(photo2dir+strtran(file.filename_parse(target,"NE"),chr(34)+")"))

                        Which always works. Now we can carry pix around on the netbooks and can blow them up to see the minutia with a single click!

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