Re[3]: [ jEdit-users ] Windows "Send To" support

[Joe L. <jo...@la...>]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, [ISO-8859-1] Dirk Möbius wrote:

> Hello Joe,
>
> > I have this hacked in for you now. It simply checks to see if the second
> > character of the string is a ':'. It assumes a full path if it is, and
> > adds the current dir if it is not.
>
> Thanks!

NP.

>
> > Is there a better way to find out if this is a full path? (I don't do a
> > lot of Win programming. Can there be a case where a path starts with a
> > label instead of a drive letter?)
>
> No, but it could be a share: e.g. \\ZEUS\dir\file.txt .
>


Hmm.. So what is the accepted way to see if a path is a full path on
Windows? Work backwards char by char until you hit a backslash. Then be
sure that is not an escape char...?? Ugh.. I bet there is some kind of
basename support, anyone? Tell me the Windows function to use for this and
I will put it in there.

The current version will be broken by anything without a ":" as the second
character (e.g. C:\ F:\ etc.)


Joe Laffey
LAFFEY Computer Imaging
St. Louis, MO
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