Curious Lynx / Jellyfish truncated path...

[Doug Hitchens]

I've been using Jellyfish Editor with Lynx project explorer and found something kinda curious....

In doing a very simple task of retrieving the current path, I kept getting a truncated path name such "c:\blah\blahbl~1" when compiling / testing my code. I tried GetCurrentDirectoryA also, same thing....

This happens when Using F5 (compile / Run) when Lynx is running with Jellyfish.

IF:

a) Lynx is terminated, full path returned
b) PBedit is used instead of Jellyfish, (not F5 now), full path returned
c) using Jellyfish / Lynx I get the full path correctly if I select "compile project" or "compile and run" from Lynx menu, no problem either (disabled in Jellyfish)...
d) running the compiled exe, worked correctly also...

Guess, I got too used to hitting F5...

It's a simple test...make sure the current directory is a long name then run:

LOCAL st_testdir AS STRING

st_testdir = CURDIR$

MSGBOX (st_testdir)

Not a big deal, but might leave you scratching your head sometime....

[Peter House]

Similar Issue Maybe

After installing Lynx, JellyFish Editor and PB on one of my customers machines so I can develop remotely using an RDP session with Citrix, I came across the following issue:

Lynx cannot pass the filename to the compiler correctly as it only passes the path up to the last backslash "\". THe compiler then times out with an error message.

I have to close Lynx and use the compile button from JellyFish which works fine.

I have been in contact with Paul Squires with lots of help and unfortunately no resolution and for now I am blaming it on Citrix. We tried reinstalling and setting up without editing the Project.LNX file using notepad (My Bad - I can't help it!)

It works on the dozen or so other machines where I have installed this configuration and use RDP daily (with no Citrix).

Peter

[Paul Squires]

I have been in contact with Paul Squires with lots of help and unfortunately no resolution and for now I am blaming it on Citrix.

You must mean Paul Noble, right? I can't remember dealing with this issue.

[Peter House]

True Dat on Paul Noble

Looking back at my correspondence, it was indeed Paul Noble. Either there are too many Pauls or too few brain cells

Peter House

[Peter House]

Slightly Off Topic

By the Way. Both the Jellyfish Pro Editor and the Lynx Project Editor are awesome products separately - Used together they are simply indescribably awesome.

Thanks to BOTH Pauls !!!

[Michael Mattias]

GetLongPathName()
GetShortPathName()

.. can be used to convert between 8.3 and 'long' filenames....

MCM