Hello,

The problem is: 
I enter as name i.e.: Part 1/2.jpg into the save panel.
I click on ok.
I get as filename in the code: "Part 1:2.jpg".

So, how can I avoid this?

In the older Carbon version of GraphicConverter I get: "Part 1/2.jpg"

Thorsten


> Von: Ken Thomases <k...@codeweavers.com>
> Datum: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 10:03:58 -0500
> An: Fritz Anderson <fri...@manoverboard.org>
> Cc: cocoa-dev List <cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com>
> Betreff: Re: NSSavePanel does replace / in the filename with a :
> 
> On Oct 16, 2010, at 9:46 AM, Fritz Anderson wrote:
> 
>> On 16 Oct 2010, at 8:44 AM, Ken Thomases wrote:
>> 
>>> (This doesn't happen in Carbon because Carbon still uses colons as path
>>> separators.)
>> 
>> It doesn't much matter, but I had thought the imposture was the other way
>> around: Colons are the "real" path separators when HFS+ is the underlying
>> file system, and it is the BSD layer that converts the HFS paths to something
>> that looks like UNIX.
> 
> Nope.  HFS+ is one of several file system drivers within the kernel.  Internal
> to that driver, colons are treated as path separators.
> 
> However, within the kernel, the BSD/POSIX standard prevails.  So, the
> interface to file system drivers uses BSD/POSIX-style names.  That style
> persists up through the kernel, through the BSD/POSIX userland, and into Cocoa
> (except for display names and GUI).
> 
>> So it's not a matter of Carbon "still" using colons.
> 
> Yup, it is.  Even Carbon is implemented in terms of the BSD/POSIX APIs.  So,
> while colons are path separators within Carbon, they have to be converted to
> slashes at the interface to BSD/POSIX.
> 
> Carbon uses colons even when the underlying file system is UFS or the like.
> So, Carbon's use of colons as path separators has nothing to do with HFS
> (anymore) and everything to do with its defined interface semantics.  That's
> all.  If HFS were entirely eliminated from Mac OS X some day, that wouldn't
> change the semantics of Carbon's API, so Apple still wouldn't be free to
> change its path separator character.
> 
> Regards,
> Ken


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