Relative Paths, Command Line and FolderItem

General
1

How can I support something such as: Dim fh As FolderItem = GetFolderItem(args(1))?

This works fine as long as args(1) is a full path. For example, one has to:

$ pwd
/home/jeremy/projects/playing
$ ls
hi.txt     my-xojo-program
$ ./my-xojo-program /home/jeremy/projects/playing/hi.txt

Typing things such as:

$ ./my-xojo-program ./hi.txt

Fails with the error:

Exception message: Passing non-absolute shell paths is not currently supported

I’m sure there has to be clever work arounds that others have already discovered to make something like this work.

Thanks!

2

maybe

Dim fh As FolderItem = GetFolderItem(args(1), FolderItem.PathTypeShell)

3

Nope, FolderItem.PathTypeShell fixes nothing, same error. I actually meant to put that in the above example, sorry about that. Forgot to include it.

4

Dim fh As FolderItem = GetFolderItem("").Child(args(1))?

5

Wayne,

Nope, tried that one also. GetFolderItem("") returns the path of the executable. So, let’s say you install your program into /usr/local/bin and then did something like:

$ pwd
/home/jeremy
$ which import-file
/usr/local/bin/import-file
$ import-file hello.txt

The code from GetFolderItem("").Child(args(1)) would return /usr/local/bin/hello.txt. If you try to be smart and pass ./hello.txt then it will fail with the original error. Seems .Child() will not take a non-absolute path either.