[PD] Filenames with spaces

[Miller Puckette]

No, Pd doesn't do this, at least not yet.  Perhaps this is a better
scheme than the one I'm proposing.  I have to look and see how hard it
would be to implement (maybe it's just easy)...

cheers
Miller
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 05:29:13PM +0000, Richard Dobson wrote:
> Is this sort of thing really necessary? The standard system on both
> Win32 and OS X is to wrap paths in quotes, as in
> "C:\My SoundFiles\Bass Riff.wav"
> 
> indeed, as you illustrate below. 
> 
> Doesn't this already work with PD?
> 
> Richard Dobson
> 
> 
> 
> Miller Puckette wrote:
> > 
> > Here's a (cranky) idea I'm thinking about for this: what if "openpanel"
> > translated filenames into encoded strings without white space, so that
> > a filename, "program files", became "program\sfiles" and "a\b c" became
> > "a\\b\sc".  I'd fix all the file opening messages throughout Pd to make the
> > opposite translation -- whenever you see a backslash - s, substitute a
> > space...
> > 
> .....
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