Shortcut Finder

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Shortcut Finder by Cygnus (Posted 21 years ago)
This code was written because I got fed up of GTA needing you to copy all your MP3s actually into the audio folder- What it does is find the corresponding file to a shortcut, so you can then load the real file... This means you can have a folder full of shortcuts and still access the files from elsewhere. VERY usefull for user audio. Dont want to use it for MP3? Change the EXT$ variable! :D Also note that this is pretty much a "kludge". its never failed me so far though!
Function getshortcut$(file$) Local EXT$=".MP3" Local ret$,ft,ln$,lnv,ok,ook,filename$,fl,lnb FT=FileType(file$) If FT=1 Then FL=ReadFile(File$) Repeat LNb=ReadByte(FL) ln$=ln$+Chr$(lnb) Until Eof(fl) LNV=Len(LN$)-1 Repeat:OK=0 LNV=LNV-1:If LNV<1 Then LNV=1:OK=2 If Mid$(LN$,LNV,1)=":" And Mid$(LN$,LNV+1,1)="\" Then ook=ok:ok=1:filename$=Mid$(LN$,LNV-1) eol=Instr(Upper$(filename$),ext$):If eol>0 Then filename$=Mid$(filename$,1,eol+3) If FileType(filename$)<>1 Then ok=ook EndIf Until OK<>0 EndIf If FileType(filename$)=1 Then ret$=filename$ Return ret$ End Function

Shortcut Finder by Cygnus

(Posted 21 years ago)

This code was written because I got fed up of GTA needing you to copy all your MP3s actually into the audio folder-

What it does is find the corresponding file to a shortcut, so you can then load the real file...
This means you can have a folder full of shortcuts and still access the files from elsewhere.

VERY usefull for user audio.

Dont want to use it for MP3? Change the EXT$ variable! :D

Also note that this is pretty much a "kludge". its never failed me so far though!

Function getshortcut$(file$)
Local EXT$=".MP3"
Local ret$,ft,ln$,lnv,ok,ook,filename$,fl,lnb
FT=FileType(file$)
If FT=1 Then
	FL=ReadFile(File$)
	Repeat
		LNb=ReadByte(FL)
		ln$=ln$+Chr$(lnb)
	Until Eof(fl)
	LNV=Len(LN$)-1
	Repeat:OK=0
		LNV=LNV-1:If LNV<1 Then LNV=1:OK=2
		If Mid$(LN$,LNV,1)=":" And Mid$(LN$,LNV+1,1)="\" Then
			ook=ok:ok=1:filename$=Mid$(LN$,LNV-1)
			eol=Instr(Upper$(filename$),ext$):If eol>0 Then filename$=Mid$(filename$,1,eol+3)
			If FileType(filename$)<>1 Then ok=ook
		EndIf
	Until OK<>0
EndIf
If FileType(filename$)=1 Then ret$=filename$
Return ret$
End Function