Setting a player to the alias resolves the alias and applies the
original path to the player's filename prop. So this alias option
doesn't get us anything. try it... make alias of long file name..
truncate alias a back to <32 chars... "set the fileName of player i
to aliasPath"....then check player's props filename will be the
original long one.
On Jun 24, 2005, at 4:26 PM, Brian Yennie wrote:
Sivakatirswami,
See "create alias" - pretty easy to use.
I can't promise that Rev won't resolve the alias and still have
long file name problems, but it may be worth a shot. You could
probably write a handler, if this works, that loops through all of
your player objects and does something like:
repeat with i=1 to number of players
put the fileName of player i into playerPath
set the itemDelimiter to "/"
put specialFolderPath("temporary")&"/"&(item -1 of playerPath)
into aliasPath
create alias aliasPath to file playerPath
if (the result is empty) then
set the fileName of player i to aliasPath
else
answer error "Error Creating Alias to Media"
end if
end repeat
Untested, but hopefully helpful. I've tested that setting the
fileName to an alias DOES work, I just haven't experienced the long
file path bug myself, so can't say whether it cures that!
HTH -
Brian
I'm all ears... in this app, the sound file is downloaded over the
net... and later thrown away... the source file is on our server
and will continue to carry the long file name... so, temporarily
changing the name of the file is not "dangerous" in this context
and since we "own" the files, it's not like I'm messing with my
clients file archive... but still I like the alias possibility.
I would need that to work on both Mac and Windows... do you have a
cross platform script to code an alias?
thanks
Sivakatirswami
On Jun 24, 2005, at 2:58 PM, Brian Yennie wrote:
I know this is a pretty dirty sounding workaround, but what
happens if you place an alias to the file in the user's temporary
files (instead of copying it there)? More work but less disk
space if it works...
If you want to deliver a media player now, the only way around
this is to
have your app duplicate the user's media somewhere on their
drive, rename
it, and then make sure to delete the duplicate when you're
done. For a few
files, one by one, this might be OK, but I question whether
this is a valid
workaround for potentially dozens of multi-megabyte files.
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