At 5:16 PM -0800 3/29/06, Jeffrey Ellis wrote:
I replaced all my .shellpath's with .absolutepath's. And sure enough, the
issue with truncated filenames has been fixed in 2006r1. So , again, thank
you :)
That's good -- but still better not to use paths
at all. Remember, you can store FolderItem
objects directly in a listbox using
Listbox.CellTag. And if there's anyplace you
really do need to convert a FolderItem to a
string and back -- which I doubt, from what
you've said about this project -- then you should
use GetSaveInfo instead of paths.
//get the FolderItems
f=new folderitem(sourcerootpath)
Oi! This is what you should never do --
reconstitute a FolderItem from a path. But I've
beaten this horse to death; I'll try to move on.
:)
f=f.child(nthField(sourcepath,":",countfields(sourcepath,":")))
Oi oi! Sorry, can't help myself. It looks to me
like you're simply trying to get the item under
source root, which has the same name as your
source item. Using proper FolderItem technique,
this would simply be:
f = sourceRoot.Child( source.Name )
g=new folderitem(targetrootPath)
Oi. :)
g=g.child(nthField(targetpath,":",countfields(targetpath,":")))
As above, this could be simply g =
targetRoot.Child( target.Name ), if targetRoot
and target were FolderItems.
//copy the file
origin=f//this folderitem reports it's absolutepath as ending in "::"
OK, let's see if we can work this out. f at this
point is that path abomination above, built from
sourceroot and sourcepath:
sourcerootpath: Firewire 400:Users:jeffrey:New Files:
sourcepath: Firewire 400:Users:jeffrey:New Files:Sigma Chess 6.0.2 :
Well, countFields for sourcepath would return 7,
and the 7th item is the empty string. So you've
asked for f.Child(""), where f is originally your
New Files folder (making various unsafe
assumptions about the uniqueness of these paths).
That doesn't make much sense, and I'm not too
surprised it returns a somewhat nonsensical
FolderItem.
HTH,
- Joe
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Joseph J. Strout
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