Garrett Hylltun wrote:
Rev 2.6.1 / OS X
Greetings,
I've run into a bit of an odd thing that I can't figure out. I have a
file with the following path:
/Users/garrett/Desktop/My Music/Metal Rules/Alice In Chains - Man in the
box.mp3
But when I drag and drop it on my app I get the following instead:
/Users/garrett/Desktop/My Music/Metal Rules/Alice In Chains - Man#88B1F.mp3
Is there a character length limit on incoming file names for the
dragData["files"]?
Here's the code I am using:
<snip>
Your script is okay, it's the OS X Finder truncating the name. It works
just as it does on Windows, where you have 8-dot-3 file names that are
represented as long file names to the user, but stored in the older
format internally. Revolution resolves these on OS X in most cases, but
apparently not for drag data.
There is a function "the longFilePath" that allows you to retrieve the
long file name in Windows. I see it doesn't work in OS X. I think it
would be a good extension to the language if the longFilePath worked
identically on both platforms. (Macs didn't have the problem when the
function was first written, it was a Windows-only thing.) This would be
a good feature request for Bugzilla.
In the mean time, I've been trying to figure out a graceful way to get
the long file name and I can't. Here is an ungraceful way:
on dragDrop
put line 1 of the dragdata["files"] into tPath
set the itemdel to slash
set the directory to (item 1 to -2 of tPath)
put the files into tFiles
if tPath contains "#" then
delete char offset("#",tPath) to -1 of tPath
put line lineoffset(last item of tPath,tFiles) of tFiles into tFile
put tFile into last item of tPath
end if
put cr & tPath after fld 1 -- or process it here
end dragDrop
This will fail completely if:
1. You have two files in the same folder whose first 20 characters are
identical, differing only by the number following the Finder's # sign.
2. The file name contains a real "#" that isn't a Finder replacement.
Maybe someone else can come up with a better way, or fix this one. Or
there may be an Applescript function that allows you to get the long name.
I'll enter a feature request into Bugzilla about the longFilePath change.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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