Léopold Frey

problem-with-long-file-name

On 6 juin 07, at 15:22, Leopold Frey wrote:

> gives me result likes this when selecting a file on another drive :

> ConformPath doesn't help neither with my long file name problem.

The following does work for me with long sound files names even on 

> gives me result likes this when selecting a file on another drive :
>
> Disk1:/Volumes/Disk2/blabla

> ConformPath doesn't help neither with my long file name problem.
>
> Thanks for your time & help

The following does work for me with long sound files names even on  
other hard disks. Can you confirm that?

Hey Leopold. I am emailing from my phone.I haven't gotten to check out 

your patch.I would see if the same nameconform bug exhibits itself with 

the nameconform max external.conformpath or whatever it is called.if it 

does than it is a problem in the kernel.as far as getting a numeric file 

handle it is not going to happen anytime soon if ever. That is part of 

max that we chose not to expose to java given that java programmers are 

able to work with unix style paths.finally it should be trivial to roll 

your own nativePathToMaxPath function. The one that goes the other way 

in MaxSystem is hand rolled itself.Hope that helps!

Hey Leopold. I am emailing from my phone.I haven't gotten to check out 
your patch.I would see if the same nameconform bug exhibits itself with 
the nameconform max external.conformpath or whatever it is called.if it 
does than it is a problem in the kernel.as far as getting a numeric file 
handle it is not going to happen anytime soon if ever. That is part of 
max that we chose not to expose to java given that java programmers are 
able to work with unix style paths.finally it should be trivial to roll 
your own nativePathToMaxPath function. The one that goes the other way 
in MaxSystem is hand rolled itself.Hope that helps!


1. There's no emergency. Answer when you have time to do it. I'm sorry 

2. concerning the [conformpath] & MaxSystem.nameConform() : the bug does 

3. concerning the suggestion of a nativePathToMaxPath function,

I'll wait for you to check my patch (lots of explanations where in it 

* create a sound file that has more than 32 characters (I already know 

* open your preferred max-style filebrowser : yours

* browse to the right path and select the sound file you've just created 

1. There's no emergency. Answer when you have time to do it. I'm sorry 
if this point wasn't clear...

2. concerning the [conformpath] & MaxSystem.nameConform() : the bug does 
not appear with [conformpath].

3. concerning the suggestion of a nativePathToMaxPath function,
I'll wait for you to check my patch (lots of explanations where in it 
actually).

* create a sound file that has more than 32 characters (I already know 
the workaround thanks ;) )
* open your preferred max-style filebrowser : yours
* browse to the right path and select the sound file you've just created 
and try to open it in sfplay~ or buffer~
* phone me back ;)

I will check it out next time I am at a computer!

Was there ever a solution to this problem? I cannot get long file names to convert properly to the version with the hex codes in them. Because of this, so far, my java file browser is useless since most of the files I am accessing have long names.

I tried moth the Java method and the max patcher method [conformpath] and both of them leave the file in it's long name.

Was there ever a solution to this problem?  I cannot get long file names to convert properly to the version with the hex codes in them.  Because of this, so far, my java file browser is useless since most of the files I am accessing have long names.

I tried moth the Java method and the max patcher method [conformpath] and both of them leave the file in it's long name.


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Problem with long file name