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-----Opprinnelig melding----- Fra: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] På vegne av Jochen Merz Sendt: 28. desember 2011 12:54 Til: [email protected] Emne: Re: [Ql-Users] A QD quirk Sorry, I don't think I can fix it except for reporting an error in the maximum filename length case. Extension things etc. may stop working - so I can't change the location of QD's internal workspace variables. I'm not in a mood to look at the sources as my father died last night. Jochen Bob Spelten schrieb: > Op Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:25:40 +0100 schreef George Gwilt > <[email protected]>: > >> I have just used QD to examine a file with the longest possible name. >> The name was actually >> ram1_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456_wda. Although QD displayed the >> contents of the file correctly, it did so with a purple coloured ink. >> This ink was set for all other files read in provided the name was >> not of maximum length. The file >> ram1_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz12345_wda1 >> reset the colour to a rather fainter, almost unreadable, purple. >> >> Is this a new feature of QD? Has anyone noticed this before? >> > > Normally I avoid maximum length filenames but I repeated your > experiment on my QPC2 (in 16 bit colour mode) with QD (vB01) and an ASCII test file. > A maximum name with a 3 character extension produced 'dark grey' text, > to be precise, a black and white stipple type zero. > A maximum name with a 4 character extension produced 'pink' text, a > red and white stipple type 3. > Although the white may have been the light grey background my QD > normally uses. > Loading another file in the same QD kept the grey or pink colour intact. > The resulting colours may be depending on the QD configuration or your > theme setting. > > Furthermore I could not load the file into QD with FileInfo2, which I > often use to look at any type of file, QD was started but the text was > not loaded and QD reported 'no name' so normal Load from QD was used instead. > It seems to be another QD feature because executing the text into > VIEW_FILE from FI2 worked OK. > > Renaming the file to 35 characters made the FI2/QD combination behave > normal again. > > Best wishes for a QLing 2012, > Bob > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
