Re: [Gnuplot-bugs] Can't load long pathnames/filenames

[Bastian M. <bma...@we...>]

Hans-Bernhard Br=F6ker wrote:
> Tim Chippington Derrick wrote:
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>> This is with GnuPlot 4.0 Patchlevel 0
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> Not really --- it's with gnuplot 4.0 patchlevel 0 (all lowercase).
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>> Great tool, but seems to have an 80 character limit to the maximum=20
>> pathname length e.g. when dragging and dropping a file of gnuplot=20
>> commands.

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> That's not 'e.g.', it's exactly in drag/drop handling.  wgnuplot won't =

> accept any drop event with more than 80 bytes of data.  If you're sure =

> you want to change that (as opposed to, say, registering a filename=20
> extension for gnuplot scripts), feel free to do so.  The relevant place=
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> is DragFunc(), in src/win/wtext.c
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You could use the menu item 'File/Open ...' or the 'Open' button instead.=

These methods work correctly.

The patch attached increases the maximum text length for drag and drop
operations to MAX_PATH.

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Bastian M=E4rkisch
Physikalisches Institut, Universit=E4t Heidelberg
Philosophenweg 12
69120 Heidelberg