QT path issues

Chris Sheffield cmsheffield at gmail.com
Tue May 16 14:10:00 EDT 2006


Would a urlEncode on the path make any difference? I see you're  
specifically replacing spaces with "%20", but maybe running it  
through urlEncode would fix this other character. Just a guess.

Chris


On May 15, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> I have a path to a move file which plays well, until I insert a "ƒ"  
> character (Option-F on Mac) into one of the folder names -- then I  
> get a "can't create movie reference" error.
>
> I'm already using the "file:" trick to set the file path -- here's  
> the code:
>
>   put "file://"&pMovieFile into tPath
>   replace space with "%20" in tPath
>   set the fileName of player "QT" to tPath
>
> What else can I do to account for such anomalies in the path?
>
> -- 
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Lead Programmer, ResearchWare Inc.
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