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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