You could try making a hard link to the file with the special characters in
its name. But name the link something very simple like temp0001. Then,
open the link. I've gotten around similar problems in the QT player with
this technique. It seems that the QT player (at least) squawks when you use
some of the more esoteric features of Windows file names such as special
characters, parentheses, and brackets. Then, when you're done doing
whatever you're doing, just delete the hard link.
Tom Hesley
Tommy's Tunes
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Subject: FSRef under Windows / loading files with special characters in
their filenames
Looking through the list archives, I found a post from Harry Plate,
dated Dec 9 2005, dealing with much the same problem as I have -- namely
that FsRef functions aren't in the Quicktime SDK libraries for Windows,
though it they are listed in the header files.
I am trying to load an audio file which uses an 'e' with an acute accent
in the filename; this fails when I use FSMakeFSSpec or
NativePathNameToFSSpec. It would seem that under OS X, using FSMakeFSRef
would would be the appropriate course of action. Given that the function
isn't available under windows, how do I go about opening files with
special characters in their names? Has anyone (Harry?) made any
progress with this who is willing to share their discoveries?
Thanks very much in advance for any help.
Alexis
(original post by Harry Plate below)
> Ok. So FSRefs really arent supported on windows; I'm surprised... I've
gone
> thru every QT book I have (and the CDs associated) with them, and note the
> FSRef is always qualified w/ some kind of OSX directive.
>
> I note that on windows that an FSRef is declared to be an opaque array
600b
> in length; So what if I write my own implementations for the 3 functions
> below, and like the FSSpec windows implementation, merely copy the
absolute
> filepath into that array? Is this what folks end up doing. Or is there a
> better approach?
>
> Can anyone throw me a bone?
>
> -harry
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