DOS paths

[TIG]

Is it just me
On a PC...
Sketchup.find_support_file('Plugins')
v7 returns
C:\Program Files\Google\Google SketchUp 7\Plugins
v8 returns
C:/PROGRA~1/Google/GOOGLE~3/plugins
OR
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins
and
File.dirname(__FILE__)
is similar...
There seems to be no reason it changes...

This DOS path now seems useless for compiling URL paths etc
Any clues on how to get long-paths back ?

[TIG]

Answering my own question

require 'win32ole'
	def self.get_long_filename(shortpath, fso = WIN32OLE.new("Scripting.FileSystemObject"))
		path = case
		when fso.FolderExists(shortpath)
			fso.GetFolder(fso.GetAbsolutePathName(shortpath))
			when fso.FileExists(shortpath)
			fso.GetFile(fso.GetAbsolutePathName(shortpath))
		else
			return shortpath
		end  
		parts = path.Path.split("\\")
		working = fso.GetDrive(parts.shift).RootFolder
		longpath = working.Path
		parts.each{|part|
			temppath = fso.BuildPath(longpath, part)
			working = fso.GetFolder(longpath)
			if fso.FolderExists(temppath)
				working.SubFolders.each do |sub|
				  longpath = fso.BuildPath(longpath, sub.Name) if part== sub.ShortName || part == sub.Name
				end
			elsif fso.FileExists(temppath)
				working.Files.each{|sub|
					longpath = fso.BuildPath(longpath, sub.Name) if part== sub.ShortName || part == sub.Name
				}
			end
		}
		return longpath
	end

[Dan Rathbun]

Might be a Vista thing.

On my XP, SU v7 and v8, both:
Sketchup.find_support_file('Plugins') %(#800080)[>> C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 8/Plugins]

I do not get backslashes nor contracted dir names.

ADD: However I run v7 with a copy of the ruby dll from v8. (Ruby v1.8.6-p287)

[thomthom]

I cannot remember getting those types of paths from SketcHup....

[Jim]

Are you calling some utility using system or ` ```? I've seen short names in paths like this sometimes.

[TIG]

Most of the time I get also get 'full-paths' returned.
Just occasionally they revert to the short DOS form.
This can occur in the same model with the same 'other plugins' loading and the same paths used...
It's not a big issue - often the short-path form works well anyway... and the posted code does return the full-path from the short-form if it's needed...