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

[Mark T. <m.b...@br...>]

On Fri, 5 May 2006, Marco Comparato wrote:

> 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.

Marco,

sorry for the delay - I meant to bring a windows machine in today so
I could look at this but I forgot, I'll try to remember tomorrow.
In the mean time:
 
> > 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?

Can you tell me exactly what goes wrong with savot?  

> > (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

all a bit of a mystery to me, though it may have something to do with
what John said about the difference between starting from DOS prompt or
Windows.  I'll try to investigate.

> than 8 chars too. It seems you use it just to get a system temp dir,
> Could you avoid the use of this method?

I need to put temporary files somewhere, and File.createTempFile()
is the normal way to do it.

Mark

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