dragData["files"] problem

[Ken Ray]

On 5/26/06 5:22 AM, "Klaus Major" <klaus at major-k.de> wrote:


> But i think it is worth mentioning that this will only DISPLAY the
> correct filepath.
> You cannot use that correct filepath in Rev in any way!

True! Thanks for the reminder...
 
> Example:
> 
> Path returned by Rev:
> /Users/klaus/Desktop/Widerspruch und Klag#51BF4F.pdf
> 
> stsLongFilePath:
> /Users/klaus/Desktop/Widerspruch und Klage - S 11 AS 105.pdf
> 
> "launch document xyz" will only work with the first "crippled" path
> returned by Rev
> (with drag and drop or "Answer file"), NOTHING will happen with the
> second and
> "correct" path.

Actually, "answer file" returns the long path (uncrippled)... it appears
that only drag and drop returns a crippled path. And you can always use
"open" through the shell instead of launch to open a file with a long path
as a workaround. 

> This is a very long known bug (Bugzilla: 396, 08/20/2003!) and does
> affect ALL file
> handling actions in Rev on OS X, especially player objects and is a
> real shwostopper
> in my opinion. This bug is also related to path names with umlauts/
> accents etc...

Agreed... even though there are some workarounds, it is desperately
important that ALL of these path-related things get fixed. In fact,
drag-and-drop should return a long file path just like 'answer file' does so
there shouldn't be a need to go out to AppleScript to handle that


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com