On Mar 11, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Sven E Olsson wrote: > Hi list, > I wanted some code that do NOT work, yes it should NOT work... > > I think all of us know that create folderitems from absolute paths is > a bad thing.. > And now i try to write some code that not working using absolute path > when i create a folderitem. > > ' create a folderitem from the absolute path > f = GetFolderItem(pathStr)
I ALWAYS use the Shell path. This way, any mountpoints will be properly resolved regardless of the name of the volumes (volumes with the same name have the same Absolute path). > The pathStr is created from d.absolutepath and is 266 bytes long .. > two folders have names about 50 bytes long. What is the limit? Should > it not be a filename longer than 32 bytes? ... or was it 64 or 256 ... The system definition for PATH_MAX for local volumes is currently 1024. > My code is still working... > I need some help to get my code to NOT work... Huh? Why would you want to actually have the code break? Tim -- Tim Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
