What about image file names with a space -- will that be a problem later?

[Michael Kann]

Mark,

Best to stay away from spaces. Underscore would be better. You might want to divide the names up into first name, last name. When you sort you probably want to sort on the last name anyway. I don't like to use capital letters in file names either, but that might not be too bad. If you ever want to move your data to a Linux environment the capital letters are treated as different letters, which might cause problems.

I checked out your water polo website. Looks like a great program.

Mike



--- On Thu, 6/21/12, Mark Rauterkus <mark.rauterkus at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Mark Rauterkus <mark.rauterkus at gmail.com>
Subject: What about image file names with a space -- will that be a problem later?
To: use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
Date: Thursday, June 21, 2012, 11:15 AM

Hi,

Building the camp attendance application with LC Win and wonder about
the use of a space in a file name of an image. Is that going to cause
troubles later?

I've got the record for each student as a two words with a space
between. That then becomes the "card name." (example, Roberto
Clemente).

I'll take photos of the kids and then rename the file, from the
digital camera, "imagex.jpg" to "Roberto Clemente.jpg". Then I'll get
the photo of the person and have it show in the record, etc.

Am I going to run into problems with the finder or such with that
"space" between the FirstName and LastName?

Should I do something else, like name the files with an UNDERLINE character?

Does anyone have a LC card or button routine that can surf a directory
of photos and rename the file names. Image #25 is "Sally Smith." -->
filename changed to Sally Smith.jpg.


--
Ta.


Mark Rauterkus       Mark.Rauterkus at gmail.com

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