Re: button to open text file

On Jul 3, 2:22 am, "Your Name" <your.n...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
"r_poetic" <radford.scha...@xxxxxxx> wrote in message

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This seems like an old question, but anyway. This database has some
supplemental info in text form that I would like to be able to view at
random times, so I added a button that executes a script to open a
separate text file.  However, the step, Open URL["Macintosh HD: Users:
myplace: List.txt"] goes looking for a web site.  How can it be told
to open the local file instead?  (And would the answer to that
question be the same if I moved the db to a Windows machine).

I've never had a reason to use the Open URL command with anything other than
a real web address, but a URL address does need to have the correct prefix
so that the web browser to know what to do with it.
e.g.
     website      http://
     email         mailto:
     ftp site       ftp://
     local file     file://
     etc.

When you open a URL address (or type one manually) without a prefix, the web
browser automatically assumes that it is a website and adds "http://"; to the
front.

I would need to check on my Mac to see what that does, but opening a local
file in Firefox on this ancient Windows PC gives an address like
file:///D:/MyFile.txt

At the very least you will have to add the prefix, and you may need to do
some manipulation of the address / file path depending on whether the
database is running on a Mac OS or Windows computer.

Helpful Harry  :o)

Thanks, the file:// and / instead of : works!
.

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