Mein herzliches Beileid, Jochen!

Anton

Am 28.12.2011 um 12:53 schrieb Jochen Merz:

> Sorry, I don't think I can fix it except for reporting an error in the 
> maximum filename length case. Extension things etc. may stop working -
> so I can't change the location of QD's internal workspace variables.
> 
> I'm not in a mood to look at the sources as my father died last night.
> 
> Jochen
> 
> 
> 
> Bob Spelten schrieb:
>> Op Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:25:40 +0100 schreef George Gwilt
>> <grggw...@gmail.com>:
>> 
>>> I have just used QD to examine a file with the longest possible name.
>>> The name was actually
>>> ram1_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456_wda. Although QD displayed the
>>> contents of the file correctly, it did so with a purple coloured ink.
>>> This ink was set for all other files read in provided the name was not
>>> of maximum length. The file ram1_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz12345_wda1
>>> reset the colour to a rather fainter, almost unreadable, purple.
>>> 
>>> Is this a new feature of QD? Has anyone noticed this before?
>>> 
>> 
>> Normally I avoid maximum length filenames but I repeated your experiment
>> on my QPC2 (in 16 bit colour mode) with QD (vB01) and an ASCII test file.
>> A maximum name with a 3 character extension produced 'dark grey' text, to
>> be precise, a black and white stipple type zero.
>> A maximum name with a 4 character extension produced 'pink' text, a red
>> and white stipple type 3.
>> Although the white may have been the light grey background my QD normally
>> uses.
>> Loading another file in the same QD kept the grey or pink colour intact.
>> The resulting colours may be depending on the QD configuration or your
>> theme setting.
>> 
>> Furthermore I could not load the file into QD with FileInfo2, which I
>> often use to look at any type of file, QD was started but the text was not
>> loaded and QD reported 'no name' so normal Load from QD was used instead.
>> It seems to be another QD feature because executing the text into
>> VIEW_FILE from FI2 worked OK.
>> 
>> Renaming the file to 35 characters made the FI2/QD combination behave
>> normal again.
>> 
>> Best wishes for a QLing 2012,
>> Bob
>> 
> 
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