Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

[Sivakatirswami]

OK I throw in the towel... I'll rename the files for now on the users  
hard drive while retaining the long file name for all other processes  
other than simply to play the player... this solves the immediate  
problem and by changing a few other scripts that refer to the field  
that contains the path to refer instead to  the custom prop that  
contains a  <32 filename... I'm good to go.... and I'll offer some  
mangoes to the Gods of the temple of Run Rev that they will fix this  
before I get back to building the other apps related to this project,  
in those contexts I definitely do not want to be changing these files  
names...

oh...viz-a-viz the bug categorizatioin:  i guess, since I *can* carry  
on, this is indeed not a true "blocker"...

:-)  I see what you mean... a true blocker should mean I can't do  
*anything* to continue.

global theTape
on mouseUp
   answer "Are you finished with the last one? If so, shall I clear  
the header info?" with "No" or "Yes"
   if it is "No" then exit to top
   answer file "Locate the sound file you want to transcribe."  with   
(fld "localPath" of stack "atra-prefs" &"/")
       if it is empty then exit mouseUp
   put it into theTape
    put empty into fld "theTotalTime"
   put theTape into fld "soundfile"
   set the uActualFileName of fld "soundFile" to theTape
   set the itemdel to "/"
   if len(item -1 of theTape)>32 then
   put theTape into tTruncatedFileName
     put char 1 to 13 of (item -1 of theTape) & ".mp3"  into item -1  
of tTruncatedFileName
     rename file theTape to tTruncatedFileName
     put tTruncatedFileName into theTape
       set the uActualFileName of fld "soundFile" to theTape
     end if
   set the filename of player "theTape" to theTape
   clearHeader
end mouseUp

On Jun 24, 2005, at 7:41 PM, Dar Scott wrote:

>
> On Jun 24, 2005, at 11:17 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
>
>
>> Setting a player to the alias resolves the alias and applies the  
>> original path to the player's filename prop. So this alias option  
>> doesn't get us anything. try it... make alias of long file name..  
>> truncate alias a back to <32 chars... "set the fileName of player  
>> i to aliasPath"....then check player's props filename will be the  
>> original long one.
>>
>
> It was worth a try.
>
> Dar
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