Re: [Plastic-devs] Re: [Plastic-user] TOPCAT v2.1 release

[Marco C. <mc...@oa...>]

Mark Taylor wrote:
> Marco,
> 
> if I run TOPCAT on Windows it sends, for instance, 
> ivo://votech.org/votable/loadFromURL messages with a url argument that
> looks like this:
> 
>    file://localhost/C:/DOCUME~1/Mark/LOCALS~1/Temp/plastic7533.vot
> 
> Is this what you're talking about?

Hi,

yes, that is what I get.

> Windows seems to understand
> filenames/URLs in that format, in that if I type that URL into the 
> location box of Internet Explorer, it picks up the file.

I agree with you but if I pass this filename to Savot (the java library
I use to parse votables) I get wrong parsing. Do you have any idea why
this java library seems not to accept this path format? Does your
application accept it?

> (For java-aware onlookers, this is the kind of File that you get
> from File.createTempFile() methods.)

That is a little strange because it reformats the directory names bigger
than 8 chars but the file name is not reformatted even if it is bigger
than 8 chars too. It seems you use it just to get a system temp dir,
Could you avoid the use of this method?

Thanks,
Marco