I'm using QT version 7.0.4 (Windows) and version 7.0.2 of the Windows
QuickTime SDK. The OS is Windows XP Professional.
Yes, the flag createMovieFileDontCreateResFile did work for
CreateMovieStorage.
Thank you very much.
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Pietsch [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 9:24 AM
To: Paul Deepak
Cc: email@hidden
Subject: Re: QTNewDataReferenceFromFullPathCFString returns -37
On Jun 2, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Paul Deepak wrote:
> Thanks Brian. That worked ! Couple of follow up questions though -
>
> 1. This works for English and also worked for French, German and
> Spanish paths (I tried the special symbols associated with each).
> Now, it doesn't work for languages like Chinese and Arabic for
> example. I get the -37 error. Is there something unique about the
> mapping of Unicode to CFStrings that it has trouble with some
> languages ?
>
What version of QT are you currently running?
> 2. I'm using CreateMovieStorage() and AddMovieToStorage() to create
> my file. When I call AddMovieToStorage(), it seems to create
> a .#res file also. Previously, I used the CreateMovieFile() with
> the createMovieFileDontCreateResFile flag and PutMovieIntoDataFork
> () and this did not create a .res file. However, the
> CreateMovieStorage() doesn't document use of this flag. What do I
> do to not create a res file ?
>
createMovieFileDontCreateResFile should work fine with
CreateMovieStorage as well.
> -Deepak
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Brian Pietsch [mailto:email@hidden]
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 12:32 PM
> To: Paul Deepak
> Cc: email@hidden
> Subject: Re: QTNewDataReferenceFromFullPathCFString returns -37
>
> The problem is here... CFStrings are not null terminated
> internally, so when you tell it you are giving it an array of
> _MAX_PATH characters, it creates a string whose length is
> _MAX_PATH. As a result, it QTNewDataReference... thinks the file
> name is Clip_12.mov\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0...\0, which exceeds the 63
> character file limit. You should replace the line below with the
> following:
>
> CFStringRef pathstr = CFStringCreateWithCharacters(0, (UniChar*)
> tmpPath, _tcslen(tmpPath));
>
> Brian
>
>
> On Jun 2, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Paul Deepak wrote:
>
>
> // Create a CFStringRef with the Unicode string. UniChar is also an
> unsigned // short so should be compatible with tmpPath
> CFStringRef pathstr = CFStringCreateWithCharacters(0, (UniChar*)
> tmpPath,
> _MAX_PATH);
>
>
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