Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

[Peter T. Evensen]

I guess they decided not to fix it in the next release?

At 03:26 PM 6/23/2005, you wrote:
>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
>
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