Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

Trevor DeVore lists at mangomultimedia.com
Thu Jun 23 15:51:21 EDT 2005


On Jun 23, 2005, at 12:39 PM, Todd Higgins wrote:

> Is there a technical reason for Revolution having a 31 char limit in 
> Mac OS X?  Obviously the OS and filesystem support longer file names 
> (256 chars) and there must be other Carbon application that support 
> long filenames.

Revolution is most likely still using the FSSpec file structure with 
QuickTime.  QuickTime 6 introduced new movie storage functions that 
support all of the fancy long names but the Rev code needs to be 
updated to determine if QT 6 is installed and then use the appropriate 
functions.


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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com



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