A Toolbar Script To Open A Relative Path

Dave, that's an interesting tool. Thanks for sharing it. Just one question, and if you don't mind I didn't read the code to find the answer: while it's designed to handle relative paths, what will happen if it uses a webroot-relative path, as in: <CFLOCATION TEMPLATE="/subdirectory/my_other_template.cfm"> or indeed, what if that root is actually a mapped path as setup in the web server (since CFLOCATION will respect those) to go to a directory other than that named? If it is handled, then perhaps the description below could indicate that in case anyone would wonder. Not trying to rain on the parade, just wondering if these were facets you had anticipated. Indeed, I'm sure some will like to see this extended to CFINCLUDES and CFMODULE as well (though those then have a similar challenge of how to interpret a slash-prefixed path: is it a webroot relative path or a mapping in the CF Administrator?) /charlie PS This is the first note I've gotten on this list (don't recall when I'd joined), and the archive on the site shows it to only have one other note in the archives. Is it that it's a brand new list? If so, Michael, what sort of things would you like to see discussed here? I can think of all kinds of potential subjects, but what was the intent? :-) Hi Guys! When I debug, I find that I'm having to open files that are referenced relative to the template I'm looking at. Here is a toolbar script I call "The Canopener" that does all that using the Visual Tools Object Model Application Object general methods ExtractFilePath and OpenFile. Take a tag like this: <CFLOCATION TEMPLATE="../../subdirectory/my_other_template.cfm"> and select everything within the double quotes. This script will open the my_other_template.cfm document with a "clean" path - free of double dots or forward slashes and the ALL-CAPS style seen in some error messages. If anybody can lead me to a better custom button image than the canopener image I have at http://www.wscccpca.org/images/canopener.gif, I would much appreciate it. Here's the script: /* Id: /UserData/Scripts/OpenRelativePath.js, v1.0.4 10/1/2001 8:59:58 AM dbabbitt Description:   Select a relative path and this script will open the document with a "clean"   path - free of double dots or forward slashes and the ALL-CAPS style seen   in some error messages.   When I debug, I find that I'm having to open files that are referenced   relative to the template I'm looking at. Here is a toolbar script I call   "The Canopener" that does all that using the Visual Tools Object Model   Application Object general methods ExtractFilePath and OpenFile. OpenFile:   function OpenFile(const wsFile: WideString): WordBool   Opens the passed file, returning True if successful. Return True if the   file is already open. Passing an empty string to OpenFile will display the   "Open File" dialog box, enabling the user select the file(s) to open.   When using this method in JScript, you must escape backslashes inside a   string. For example, in Application.OpenFile("C:\\Documents\\MyFile.htm");   each backslash is preceded by an additional backlash. ExtractFilePath:   function ExtractFilePath(const wsFile: WideString): WideString   Returns the path of the passed file (includes trailing `\'). */ function Main() {   var i = 80;   /* Create the application object variable */   var app = Application;   app.SetProgress(i++);   /* Create the document object variable */   var oDocument = app.ActiveDocument;   app.SetProgress(i++);   /* Create the relative path - assume the file system is not case sensitive */   var basePath = app.ExtractFilePath(oDocument.Filename);   // app.MessageBox('basePath = "' + basePath + '"', 'basePath = "' + basePath + '"', 0);   app.SetProgress(i++);   var templatePath = oDocument.SelText;   // app.MessageBox('templatePath = "' + templatePath + '"', 'templatePath = "' + templatePath + '"', 0);   app.SetProgress(i++);   if(basePath.length>0) {     while(templatePath.indexOf("../")==0) {       /* Remove the last slash from the base path and extract its file path again */       basePath = app.ExtractFilePath(basePath.substr(0, basePath.length - 1));       // app.MessageBox('basePath = "' + basePath + '"', 'basePath = "' + basePath + '"', 0);       app.SetProgress(i++);       /* Pop the dot dot slashes off the front of the selected text */       templatePath = templatePath.substr(3, templatePath.length);       // app.MessageBox('templatePath = "' + templatePath + '"', 'templatePath = "' + templatePath + '"', 0);       app.SetProgress(i++);       }     templatePath = basePath + templatePath;     app.SetProgress(i++);     }   /* If it's all upper case, why can't it be all lower case? */   if(templatePath==templatePath.toUpperCase()) {     templatePath = templatePath.toLowerCase();     app.SetProgress(i++);     }   /* Replace all the forward slashes with back slashes */   var reObj = new RegExp("/", "g");   app.SetProgress(i++);   templatePath = templatePath.replace(reObj, "\\");   app.SetProgress(i++);   /* Open the relative path */   if(app.OpenFile(templatePath)) {     app.SetProgress(100);     app.SetStatusText(templatePath + ' is now open or already open!');     }   else {     app.SetProgress(100);     app.SetStatusText(templatePath + ' not open');     }   app.SetProgress(0);   } /*   Log: /UserData/Scripts/OpenRelativePath.js   Revision 1.0 8/10/2001 9:45:49 AM dbabbitt   Basic functionality copied from the info   header function.   */ Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/studio@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com