From: "Sammy Mitchell" 
@Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:29:51 -0500
@Sender: semware-owner{at}sawasdi.apana.org.au



From: "David N. Heydon"
>But not this :-( I'd commented out everything I thought had
>been overriden, i.e. ON_CHANGING_FILES and ON_FIRST_EDIT.
>On closer inspection I found another uncommented change in
>my AFTER_UPDATE_STATUSLINE hook. It was calling a function
>called mShortenFilename(). I'm not sure where this function
>came from but I'm sure I never wrote it! It attempts to
>chop down a long pathname to "x:\...\filename.ext", so it
>fits nicely on the status line. Unfortunately it obviously
>predated LFN's because it contained a while loop which went
>something like:-
>
> While (Length(pathname) > (maxdisplaysize))
>        start = Pos("\", pathname)
>        pathname = SubStr(pathname, (start + 1), (Length(pathname) -
start))
> EndWhile
>
>After I added a break if the Pos() call returned 0 it works
>as expected!

Glad you were able to find the problem.

For a replacement, you might try the built-in:
pathname=SqueezePath(pathname, maxdisplaysize)

--
Sammy Mitchell


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