answer file vs. building a path manually
Ken Ray
kray at sonsothunder.com
Fri Apr 16 11:06:37 EDT 2004
Tim,
This is the "long file name" bug that was in 2.2 in its first release.
Tuviah Snyder (the primary engineer at RunRev) has theoretically posted a
fix for this as a "new" 2.2. If you download the latest version, it *should*
fix it. Please let the list know if it doesn't.
Thanks,
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Tim Bobo
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 1:16 PM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: answer file vs. building a path manually
>
>
>
> I am working in OS X. I have a revolution stack that is set
> up to play
> all the movies in a given folder. Everything works fine
> until I hit a
> movie with a long file name. When I set the players filename
> to be the
> full file path, it chokes. When I use answer file to get the same
> exact file, it puts a truncated file path into the player as the
> filename, and it works.
>
> The problem is I cannot use answer file, because I am trying
> to play a
> whole folder of clips. Is there any way to get the truncated
> name of a
> file without using answer file for each individual file?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Tim Bobo
> Left Brain Media, Corp.
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