folder.attributes does not work

[cll]

I am working on a project that needs to write to a floppy disk. I used the following code to see if the floppy disk is read-only:

d = new Drive("a:\\");
f = d. rootFolder;
trace(f.attributes);

It told me that "attributes" is an invalid property.

Any help???

CL

[SWFKit]

Hi,

f is a string. The code should be

d = new Drive("a:\\");
trace(d);
f = new Folder(d.rootFolder);
trace(f);
trace(f.attributes);

[cll]

Hi, that worked. The trace window printed out "16" which is "folder or directory". But how can I get all the attributes, i.e., a read-only directory?

Thanks a lot!

CL

[SWFKit]

Sorry, "f.attributes" always returns 16, the method cannot work.
Furthermore, a read-only folder doesn't mean that you cannot create new files in it, but mean that you cannot delete it.

You can try the following code

var name = "a:\\tmp";
var f = new FileStream(name, "w");
if (f == null)
{
trace("Disk A: is read-only");
} 
else
{
trace("Disk A: is writtable");
f.close();
(new File(name)).remove();
}