Extendscript Toolkit targeting Bridge, does'nt read text file content. Bug?

Question

When I load a file xml and read its contents, it only works from Bridge on windows7

But when I run the code to Bridge from Abobe Extendscript Toolkit targeting Bridge, it does'nt read the fole content ( fileXMLtoParse.read() )

Is this a bug, or there is a work arround?

My example code that reads a xml fole from Desktop:

XML (Desktop/userCheckin.xml)

<preferences>
  <editor>Content to read here</editor>
</preferences>

Code:

var userDisk = Folder("~/Desktop");
var  xmlFile = File(userDisk + "/userCheckin.xml");
if (xmlFile.exists) {
     var fileXMLtoParse = File (xmlFile);
     fileXMLtoParse.open('r');
     var str = new XML(fileXMLtoParse.read());
     fileXMLtoParse.close();
     str.normalize();
     var field = str.elements().child(0); // That's the text I need
}
// I have a subpanel with a text field 'text_info' where I put specific xml data
tbPanel.text_info.text = field;

Muppet Mark · Accepted Answer

What version of CS are you using…? This worked just fine here with CS5 on the mac… Paul no longer posts here so I don't know anybody that can help if its a PC issue…

#target bridge
var  xmlFile = File( Folder.desktop + '/userCheckin.xml' );
if ( xmlFile.exists ) {
  
     xmlFile.open( 'r' );
                     
     var str = new XML( xmlFile.read() );
                     
     xmlFile.close();
                     
     str.normalize();
                     
     $.writeln( str.elements().child(0) );
                     
};

Not sure why you make a file object of the same thing twice… I also make use of Folder object static properties…

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