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B5005 - Why isn't my records location working when I jump to another file?
by - Joseph Ganci
Okay, it might be late in the afternoon but this is a nasty one I cannot figure. In my first program, called Inloader, I setup some variables
at the beginning:
G_Dummy:= #DummySymbol
G_UserFileLocation:=RecordsLocation^"UserRec"
The G_Dummy variable is just there because of technote 13621 from Macromedia. The
G_UserFileLocation is pointing at where I want to store the users data. The
next thing I do is to make a call to my MainMenu program:
JumpFile(FileLocation^"MainMenu";"G_*";G_UserFileLocation)
My intention is to call the MainMenu program, transfer all variables starting
with G_ and change the RecordsLocation to the value of G_UserFileLocation.
What happens is: MainMenu is called and all variables are transferred. But the
RecordsLocation is still equal to "C:\\WINDOWS\\A5W_DATA\\" instead of "C:\\WINDOWS\\A5W_DATA\\UserRec".
How come?
I have remembered to set G_Dummy:= #DummySymbol at the beginning of each
of my programs and the only program that is set to "Resume" is the MainMenu program.
Why can't I change the RecordsLocation? I was able to do it in A4W, but it doesn't
seem to work (for me) in A5W. I give up... I'm going home now...
Another helpful person wrote the following response:
I may be wrong but you might have too many " and you use ; instead of a comma
in your statement. Try this:
JumpFile(FileLocation^"MainMenu,G_*",G_UserFileLocation)
I then responded with the following:
Actually, the semicolon is just fine. Ole lives in Europe where the semicolon
is used as a delimiter, not a comma. If you are going to be sharing code with
someone outside the USA, it's a good idea to place a space before and after
your comma delimiters, like so:
Function(arg1 , arg2 , arg3)
My understanding (from Danny, I believe) is that this helps to convert (automatically?)
over to semicolons when used outside the US keyboard layout. The original
line:
JumpFile(FileLocation^"MainMenu";"G_*";G_UserFileLocation)
was correct but when you set up your variable:
G_UserFileLocation:=RecordsLocation^"UserRec"
you forgot to place the \\ at the end:
G_UserFileLocation:=RecordsLocation^"UserRec\\"
Authorware didn't recognize the new records location because it was expecting
the folder delimiter, which you need to provide. Hope this helps!
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