> I ran into this same problem recently. The limit is 127 > characters including the filename and extension. This is a > known bug to Macromedia in both Director and Authorware. > Apparently it has been known internally to Macromedia for > several versions and has not and is not going to be fixed. > Causes great grief when people install my applications in the > My Documents folder (that has lots of hidden characters in > the real path) and then put it in several nested sub > directories. There is NO fix other than telling your users to > not bury the application too deep.
After I made my post last night, I shortened the path, and sure enough, it worked fine. It looks like 127 is the magic number. I guess you could check the path length, then use Buddy or fileXtra4 to copy the file to another directory. What a bother. I don't know of any other way to read a text file in Director. Sounds like it would be a welcome addition to Buddy--yet another reason to buy it. It's the first Xtra I ever bought. Cordially, Kerry Thompson [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
