Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

[Klaus Major]

Hi Trevor,

> 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.

Exactly!

http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=396

That's exactly what Tuviah mentioned here:

------- Additional Comment #1 From Tuviah Snyder 2003-08-22 21:23  
-------
right this is because we using fsspecs..we plan to look into fixing  
the 32
char filepath limitation (either use unix paths or fsrefs) in the  
next release.

> 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.
>
>
> -- 
> Trevor DeVore
> Blue Mango Multimedia
> trevor at mangomultimedia.com

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de