Standalone Application Settings- Copy files

[Turtle]

Hello,
I have a big problem with reading a text file, which i copied in standalone application settings. What i need to do is putting the file content into a field, but what i get is an empty result or "can't open that file". Here is what i have tried.

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on mouseUp
   put specialfolderpath("engine") into tPath
 
  set the itemdel to "/"
  delete item -1 of tPath

  put  tPath & "/page_1.txt" into file1
 
  set the text of field "taleText" to URL( "file:" &  file1)

end mouseUp

and

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on mouseUp
    put specialFolderPath("engine") into tMainPath
   set itemdel to "/"
 
   delete last item of tMainPath
   put tMainPath & "/page_1.txt"  into tURL
   open file tURL for read 
   read from file tURL until EOF
   put it into tText
   put textDecode(tText,"UTF-8") into field "taleText"
   close file  tURL
end mouseUp

I am using livecode 8.1.6 and testing on Android phones.
I have been searching answers in the forum but i could not find any that could help me Hope i will find my answer here.
Thanks

[Klaus]

Hi Turtle,

1. welcome to the forum!

2. You are making it much more complicated than it really is!
Everything you add via the "Copy files..." tab in the standalone builder settings can be found here:
specialfolderpath("resources") (which happens to be the same as -> specialfoderpath("engine") on mobile!)

No just need to modify the value of specialfolderpath:

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## specialfolderpath(..) comes WITHOUT the trailing slash
put specialfolderpath("resources") & "/page_1.txt" into file1
set the text of field "taleText" to URL("file:" &  file1)
...

That will do the trick!

Take a look at the "naked" specialfolderpath(..) codes and you will understand what went wrong:

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answer specialfolderpath("resources")
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Best

Klaus

[Turtle]

Thank you And another thing that i think i did wrong is that when i copied the file it had different location than my livecode file ))) now everything works