On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 06:40 PM, mckernon wrote:

> Dear friends,
>
> I fear I'm caught in the VRefNum vs. WDRefNum vs. FSSpec tangle,
> hopefully one of you smart folks can see where I'm screwing up.
>
> What I'm trying to do is make a list of all the files (of certain types)
> within a specified folder within my application's folder. Then, I let 
> the
> user select one of those files from a pop-up menu and display it 
> onscreen
> or print it using USR IMAGEFILETOPICT.
>
> I call FN CheckFolderApp, which calls FN ProcessFolder, which calls FN
> AddToFileList. However, when I use the filenames and volume numbers that
> are sent to FN AddToFileList with USR IMAGEFILETOPICT, I first check to
> see if they exist and they don't. The filenames are all correct, but the
> VolNum is always the same, no matter which sub-folder the routines have
> been asked to process. My guess is the scanStuff.ScanSpec.vRefNum isn't
> what I need, or it needs converting to a WDRefNum, but I don't know how
> to do that.
>

Hi,

This is not an answer, just a general suggestion.

If you can, stick to FSSpecs. You can use USR FileExists or USR 
FSFileExists to check their presence rather than the older paramblock 
method.

Regards

Ian