[PD-dev] openpanel length limit on OSX and linux

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Thu Oct 4 17:17:54 CEST 2007


On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Tim Boykett wrote:

>   I have found a strange problem with openpanel on OSX and linux. If I 
> open a file with a long name, including the whole directory, then it 
> gets cropped at around 80 characters (maybe 78 or 79). I have tested 
> this on a debian 0.40 install and the latest OSX extended. I cannot see 
> where this 80 character restriction might come from - looking at the 
> source there seems to be no place that it is mentioned within the PD 
> code.

[print] has a limit size like that, but the actual limit size of pd is 
more like 1000.

(in desiredata, the limit of 1000 has been removed)

> I hope someone can help. It does not seem to be a problem with symbol
> lengths.

What do you mean?

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