[java-dev] Re: SOLUTION! Long Filename Support in Max with Java

Hi rick,

sorry for the long delay but I've been working on so many different things lately that I had no time to dig into this problem.

    Are you saying you have multiple partitions on the same drive?   
    I do not have a machine that has that case to test it.
    I have multiple drives and I know that works.
    Which OSX version are you using?

I've made a series of tests

on my powerbook (G4 PPC Mac Os 10.4.10) the problem appears in MaxMSP 4.5.7 and MaxMSP 4.6.3 with different partitions on the same drive, network mounted drives or external drives.

on my iMac (Intel core 2 duo Mac Os 10.4.10 MaxMSP 4.6.3) everything is fine no matter the hard drive the file is on.

So it seems to be more a Intel/PPC specific problem.

Anyway, I've found a workaround :

[code]
public void convert(String s1)
{	
	//Need to make sure this string does not need to be converted	
	if(s1.matches(".*#[0-9]+\\..*") && s1.matches(".*:.*"))
	{	
		outlet(0,Atom.newAtom(s1));
	}
	else	
	{	
                // replace strange characters
		s2 = s2.replace(""+((char)14848),":/");
		s2 = s2.replace(""+((char)12032),"/");
	   	outlet(0,Atom.newAtom(s2));
	}
}
[/code]

Thanks

Leo