Changeset 184 for trunk/lingosource/castlib1/alexUtilities.ls

Timestamp:

09/17/08 15:57:25 (4 years ago)

Author:

alex

Message:

fixed a problem with buddyApis tempfolder, where my exported scripts would become malformatted unicode files in bbedit - I have not the least idea why that happens, but it prevented me from listing the differences with bbdiff

File:

• trunk/lingosource/castlib1/alexUtilities.ls (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/lingosource/castlib1/alexUtilities.ls

@@ -2502 +2502 @@
 on mGetTempFilePath me, theName
   
-  if mCheckForXtra(me, "BudAPI") then
-    
-    if the platform contains "mac" then
-      
-      resetUNames = 0
-      if baSysFolder("prefs") starts "/" then
-        baReturnUnixNames(0)
-        resetUNames = 1
-      end if
-      tempSrcHFSPath = basysfolder("temp")
-      if length(tempSrcHFSPath) > 0 then
-        tempSrcHFSPath = tempSrcHFSPath & theName
-        if resetUNames = 1 then baReturnUnixNames(1)
-        return tempSrcHFSPath
-      else
-        if resetUNames = 1 then baReturnUnixNames(1)
-      end if
-      
-    else
-      tmpfolder = baSysFolder("temp")
-      if length(tmpfolder) > 0 then return tmpfolder & theName
-    end if
-    
-  end if
+  -------------- for some reason, I don't know why, if I use this buddyApi temp folder
+  -------------- files get screwed up with invalid unicode chars ???!!!
+  -------------- so I resort to the old behavior just using /tmp
+  
+  --  if mCheckForXtra(me, "BudAPI") then
+  --    
+  --    if the platform contains "mac" then
+  --      
+  --      resetUNames = 0
+  --      if baSysFolder("prefs") starts "/" then
+  --        baReturnUnixNames(0)
+  --        resetUNames = 1
+  --      end if
+  --      tempSrcHFSPath = basysfolder("temp")
+  --      if length(tempSrcHFSPath) > 0 then
+  --        tempSrcHFSPath = tempSrcHFSPath & theName
+  --        if resetUNames = 1 then baReturnUnixNames(1)
+  --        return tempSrcHFSPath
+  --      else
+  --        if resetUNames = 1 then baReturnUnixNames(1)
+  --      end if
+  --      
+  --    else
+  --      tmpfolder = baSysFolder("temp")
+  --      if length(tmpfolder) > 0 then return tmpfolder & theName
+  --    end if
+  --    
+  --  end if
   
   -- we only come here, if