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Pate

10-11-2003, 07:31 AM

Hi!

I have a weird problem in my COFFEE expression tag. I try to create a text file and output a line of text into it, but the following line

var f = new(BaseFile);

always makes f = nil, and I can't figure out why...

Anybody know what is wrong? This is practically straight from the BaseFile example on COFFEE SDK, so I think it should work..

Thanks!

Pate

paintbox

10-11-2003, 10:09 AM

Hmmm, I'm pretty a newbie at programming (and I like to learn COFFEE) , but maybe you need to declare the var first ?

so var f becomes a number or string ?

Again, I don't no a great deal about programming, but that's my first hunch. I hope a COFFEE master arrives soon :)

Srek

10-11-2003, 05:19 PM

Hi,
maybe because you are not allowed to access files during rendertime?
Afaik this is only possible when using COFFEE in a plugin not in a Tag or a COFFEE node.
Cheers
Srek

Pate

10-11-2003, 06:35 PM

Okay, thanks for the info Srek. I began suspecting something like this.

I just wanted to output some debug stuff to a file, so this is not a big deal.. I'll just have to keep on using the console window.

Thanks for the replies!

Pate

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