[Bf-committers] Win32 paths

[Bill Baxter]

Nope, that's not it.  But I did just figure out what it was:  I was 
using \TEMP, without the drive, since that's how the file chooser 
returns things.  But if you include the drive, like C:\TEMP, it does 
work.  More for the release notes.

--bb

Douglas Toltzman wrote:

>This is just a shot over the bow, but I remember, sometime ago, someone
>saying that spaces in the path created problems.  If this is the case, the
>arguments would need to be surrounded in double-quotes.  I have no idea if
>this is still a problem, but I thought I'd mention it.
>
>Douglas Toltzman
>
>On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Bill Baxter wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Actually, I spoke too soon.  Removing the trailing slash does fix the 
>>problem with finding Python scripts, but it does not fix the YFexport 
>>problem.  Console output is:
>>------
>>    Starting scene conversion.
>>    Scene conversion done.
>>    Could not open input file
>>    Could not execute yafray. Is it in path?
>>------
>>
>>--bb
>>
>>Bill Baxter wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Ah yes.  That seems to fix it.  Thanks Nathan.  I guess if it can't be 
>>>fixed at this point it should be noted in big bold letters in the 
>>>release notes. The fact that the file chooser returns paths with 
>>>trailing slashes kind of exacerbates the problem.
>>>
>>>--bb
>>>
>>>Nathan Letwory wrote:
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>These problems are because of the trailing slashes in the pathnames.
>>>>
>>>>/Nathan
>>>>
>>>>Bill Baxter wrote:
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>Load and save of prefs is working fine with Simon's checkins from 
>>>>>earlier.
>>>>>But there are a few other path problems I'm having (and have had 
>>>>>since I started checking out CVS versions a few days back):
>>>>>
>>>>>1) If I set the YFexport path, I get this message:
>>>>>Yafray found at : C:\PROGRA~1\YafRay\
>>>>>2) I don't get any scripts in my menu.  I set the Python: dir to 
>>>>>someplace with annotated scripts, but when I click the little 
>>>>>"re-evaluate" icon I just get the popup: "err invalid scripts dir: 
>>>>>check console".  But the console doesn't say anything.  Here's an 
>>>>>example of the annotation in one of the files in that directory:
>>>>>
>>>>>This is on WinXP.
>>>>>
>>>>>--bb
>>>>>          
>>>>>
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