Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

[Sivakatirswami]

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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