[Bf-committers] Re: FILE_MAX defines

[Holger Haase]

Hello,

but there's no reason against putting them into one header file, right?
And to adjust sizes like that of StripElem? And to check the length in the file-selector to bring up a reasonable error-message instead of just crashing blender?

... history can be very sticky;-) ...

-
  holger

> In the past we introduced the two defines to be used in Blender  
> everywhere, and since some strings only need to contain a directory  
> name or file name, we introduced FILE_MAXDIR and FILE_MAXFILE.
> 
> The values for it (160, 80) are hardcoded in the structures that are in  
> the Blender DNA system, because it cannot read #defines. I would  
> recommend to keep using these values and defines, also to communicate  
> Blender doesn't (cannot) use OS specific defines for it. We also don't  
> use OS specific widgets, so no reason to be compatible with it.
> 
> Please lets stick with it. :)
> 
> -Ton-

____________________________________________________________________________
Jetzt bei WEB.DE FreeMail anmelden = 1qm Regenwald schuetzen! Helfen
Sie mit! Nutzen Sie den Serien-Testsieger. http://user.web.de/Regenwald