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ASCII text files (10 posts)

• Started 15 years ago by MikeRic
• Latest reply 15 years ago from MikeRic

• MikeRic Member

  Good evening,

  I've tried uploading ASCII text files onto my site so that the .swf file of the game can read them but once on the site it doesn't.
  The .swf file manages to read the ascii text file on my Hard Disk but once uploaded it doesn't.

  I have an htm .swf txt file in eacxh uploaded folder
  Any help most welcome
  Many thanks

  Michael

  Posted 15 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  I'm just guessing, but one thing I would check is the name that the .swf file uses to refer to the text files. The case of letters does not matter for referring to files on the Mac (so "foo.txt", "Foo.txt", and "FOO.TXT" will all work for a file named "Foo.txt"), but it does on many servers. So I would verify that the name being used by the .swf file is exactly the same as the name of the file you are uploading, including the case of each letter.

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 15 years ago #

• MikeRic Member

  Many thanks Jim.

  The problem is that when on my hard disk the .swf file reads my ascii.txt correctly (a hangman programme) but when I upoload the two files the .swf doesn't read my textfile anymore.

  Best,

  Michael

  Posted 15 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  Is it possible that the .swf file refers to "ascii.txt" with a name that is not all lowercase letters?

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 15 years ago #

• MikeRic Member

  The contents of the ascii text file has to be all in upper case (for the game). The name of the file is in lower case. In fact is *words.txt* So I have three files per folder

  hangman.htm
  hangman.swf
  words.txt

  The company which sold me the game altered the.swf so that it would accept ascii from Win and Mac ascii (as I have a Mac).

  Best

  MR

  Posted 15 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  You might try renaming words.txt to WORDS.TXT to see if that makes a difference (in case the .swf file expects the file name to be all uppercase).

  If you email the files to bugs at fetchsoftworks dot com I can take a closer look.

  Thanks,

  Posted 15 years ago #

• MikeRic Member

  Many thanks for your invaluable help.
  I'll work on you suggestion tomorrow and will keep you posted.

  Michael

  Posted 15 years ago #

• MikeRic Member

  Things seem to be working. I uploaded my new files and they one can play the hangman game when clicking WebView in Fetch.

  As you mentioned capital letters I noticed that my words in the list were in lower case!!!! So I changed everything.
  Best

  Michael

  Posted 15 years ago #

• Scott McGuire Administrator

  Hi Michael,

  We're glad to hear you got things working. Thanks for the follow-up.

  Best,

  Scott McGuire
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 15 years ago #

• MikeRic Member

  Well thank YOU! (not shouting)
  Best

  Michael

  Posted 15 years ago #