What do I do? Rail against the fact that, sensibly, the engine translates all
file references to one form, but fails to do so for many other utterly trivial
differences. So, one is always forced to check for the OS (see the dictionary
for all the ridiculous exceptions). Why? Why doesn't the engine, as with file
paths, choose one style? It drives me nuts that in the IDE associated file
references, for example, are different from that in the standalone, depending
on the OS. That is just maddening, and also one reason I rarely produce
standalones: in the IDE *almost* all remains constant over OSs. But create
standalones and one spends way to much time compensating for silly differences
over OSs that should not matter.
To make the point clear that is is not just RunRev that maintains this
nonsense. Take a look at this quintessential cross-platform app, R. You want
to access text data in a rows by columns format on the clipboard by command in
Mac OS X, you use: data.dat <- read.table(pipe("pbpaste"), header = TRUE), but
on Windose, you use:
data.dat <- read.table(file("clipboard"), header = TRUE). Why? Why wouldn't
something so primitive be coded in the engine? Indeed, we all write a function
in to handle the translation over systems, but, seriously, why should we have
to? Same in RunRev. It it is a RunRev function or command, it should be
identical over all systems. Period. If I see: ``how to do X on system y'' in
RunRev, it should be followed by a single command for all systems. I admit, it
is often no more than a switch command and a 3-line wrapper, but, really, why
should it be even that? RunRev has probably spent more time writing the damn
dictionary explanation of the exception than it would take to just make the the
switch and 3-lines of code inherent in the code.
On 2010-04-14, at 10:23 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Which brings up an interface question. My app lets users choose a folder
> and then displays the folder path in a field. I've never bothered to
> change it in the past, but now I'm wondering if I should translate all
> the slashes to backslashes just for display on Windows, and then change
> them back to regular slashes in the script when I need to work with the
> path.
>
> What do others do?
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