[PD-dev] Tcl exec vs. Microsoft filenames

[Martin Peach]

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

>
> This is win32.  rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler doesn't like  
> "file:C:/Program%20Files" from my tests.  This is Microsoft we are  
> talking about, they do things their own way, standards be damned.
>
I can't find any real docs on url.dll but it seems like 
FileProtocolHandler expects a file path.
Did you try:
 exec rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler \
                [format "file:\"%s\"" $filename] &
yet?

Another solution is to use short names:
(e.g., using ``applba~1.def'' instead of ``applbakery.default''), which 
can be obtained with the *file attributes $fileName -shortname* command.
(from http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/exec.htm)
Martin


> .hc
>
> On Jan 17, 2006, at 1:26 PM, B. Bogart wrote:
>
>> yuck, URIs don't have spaces, you put one in a web-page you its  
>> replaced
>> with %20 in the URI.. I guess you could have to replace spaces with %20
>> and see if that works.
>>
>> Try just opening the file in a browser and note the URL it uses to  
>> open it.
>>
>> I assume this happens on win32, but its been too long for me to know...
>>
>> .b.
>>
>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> In u_main.tk, in the procedure menu_openhtml, this little snippet of
>>> code does not work when there is a space in the file name (i.e.
>>> C:/Program Files/pd/doc), but works fine when there are no spaces:
>>>
>>>           exec rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler \
>>>                 [format "file:%s" $filename] &
>>>
>>> This opens HTML, etc from the menu/help browser, so it would be most
>>> helpful to have it working.  I have tried a number of things to no   
>>> avail.
>>>
>>> Any Tcl-meisters want to take a stab?  Matju?
>>>
>>> .hc
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