Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

[Jon]

Is this just a Mac problem, or is it also a Windows problem?

:)

Jon


Sivakatirswami wrote:

> 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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