Short name and long name

Marty Knapp martyknapp at comcast.net
Fri May 28 19:29:35 EDT 2010


Thanks everyone. In my tests it worked fine. But I wasn't sure if there 
was something I was unaware of that would come back to bite me on the 
backside!

Thanks,
Marty
> Marty Knapp wrote:
>
>> Let's say a user creates a stack from one of my templates, then later in
>> the Finder, changes its name. Now there's a discrepancy between the
>> short name and the long name. Is that a problem or does Rev understand
>> this? Or should I construct a routine to parse the file name out and set
>> the name to correct for this?
>
> What happened when you tried it?
>
> It's a quick test:
>
> 1. Make a stack
> 2. Save it
> 3. In the Finder/Explorer, change the name of the file
> 4. Save it again
>




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