Good advise and have been checking with the end user who meet this error. Thanks. Best Regards, Edwin http://www.innovationgear.com MindVisualizer -- Productive Visual Mind Mapping Software 2007-07-13 Sender£º James Turner Sent£º 2007-07-12 17:46:41 Recipient£º delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx CC£º Subject£º [delphizip] Re: error when reading a zip file in another PC What are the access rights? Is it possible that an attempt is being made to open the file with read/write access but only read access is permitted. -- James Turner Edwin wrote: > the the path and file name dose not contain any invalid characters, the file > can be opened in the local PC. Maybe it's related to networked access. > > > > Best Regards, > Edwin > http://www.innovationgear.com > MindVisualizer -- Productive Visual Mind Mapping Software > 2007-07-12 > > > > Sender£º RPeters > Sent£º 2007-07-11 19:14:21 > Recipient£º delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > CC£º > Subject£º [delphizip] Re: error when reading a zip file in another PC > > The big problem may be what it does with characters that will not (or > cannot) convert - often these result in an invalid character as far as = > paths > or filenames are concerned. > > A reasonably easy test is to call FindFirst and check the Windows error > (probably bad filespec - I cannot recall the exact error codes at the > moment). > > - Russell Peters > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: delphizip-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:delphizip- > > bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Edwin > > Sent: Wednesday, 11 July 2007 7:47 PM > > To: delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: [delphizip] Re: error when reading a zip file in another PC > > =20 > > Thanks for your info James. > > I use Tntsystem.WideStringToStringEx(str, DefaultSystemCodePage) to do > > the conversion, it internally calls WideCharToMultiByte. Not sure = > > > where > > > the problem comes from, Tntsystem.WideStringToStringEx works well > > elsewhere so far............. > > =20 > > =20 > > =20 > > =20 > > Best Regards, > > Edwin > > http://www.innovationgear.com > > MindVisualizer -- Productive Visual Mind Mapping Software > > 2007-07-11 > > =20 > > =20 > > =20 > > Sender=A3=BA James Turner > > Sent=A3=BA 2007-07-11 17:32:40 > > Recipient=A3=BA delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > CC=A3=BA > > Subject=A3=BA [delphizip] Re: error when reading a zip file in another = > > > PC > > > =20 > > Using the short filename **might** work since it probably has only > > ascii > > characters (never checked this). > > =20 > > Are you using standard Delphi conversions or working with > > MultibyteToWideChar and WideCharToMultibyte directly? > > =20 > > If you use the style ES_OEMCONVERT in any editboxes, this might > > generate > > a conversion problem (never studied this). > > =20 > > -- James Turner > > =20 > > Edwin wrote: > > > Do you mean call GetShortPathName before setting the value of the > > ZipFileName property? The path name and file name that the user > > reported did not exceed the max. 255 characters. > > > BTW, since I use WideString as much as I can in the program, the = > > > path > > > name is converted from WideString to string before assigning to the > > property TZipMaster.ZipFileName, using the routines in the TNT = > > > Controls > > > package, I'm not sure is there error in the conversion.... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > Edwin > > > http://www.innovationgear.com > > > MindVisualizer -- Productive Visual Mind Mapping Software > > > 2007-07-11 > > > > > > > > > > > > Sender=A3=BA James Turner > > > Sent=A3=BA 2007-07-09 19:16:49 > > > Recipient=A3=BA delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > CC=A3=BA > > > Subject=A3=BA [delphizip] Re: error when reading a zip file in = > > > another PC > > > > > > > It's just a guess, but perhaps using the short filename would help. > > > > > > This can be found using the API function GetShortPathName. On some > > > versions of Windows, it can be found from the property sheet. > > > > > > -- James Turner > > > > > > RPeters wrote: > > > > > > > I would say it is quite likely. > > > > My understanding is that the UNC 'share name' still follows the = > > > old > > > > > restricted character rules - if I am wrong I will quite a bit of > > code to > > > > adapt. > > > > > > > > I doubt that 1.79 (or earlier) is very friendly with MBCS > > characters either. > > > > If you are using 1.79 you could have it generate a log file (put = > > > an > > > > > appropriate ini file in the same folder as the dll). > > > > - Russell Peters > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: delphizip-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:delphizip- > > > > > bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Edwin > > > > > Sent: Monday, 9 July 2007 6:54 PM > > > > > To: delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > Subject: [delphizip] error when reading a zip file in another PC > > > > > > > > > > Dear sir/Madam, > > > > > > > > > > Error when reading a zip file which is located in another PC and > > the > > > > > UNI path reads like \\pc1\folder1\my_file.zip, where folder1 > > contains > > > > > Chinese characters. This error is reported by one of my users > > and I > > > > > cannot reproduce this error in my office. Any tips would be > > > > > appreciated. > > > > > > > > > > BTW, Is the archive of this list available? > > > > > -------------- > > > > > Best Regards, > > > > > Edwin > > > > > http://www.innovationgear.com > > > > > MindVisualizer -- Productive Visual Mind Mapping Software > > > > > 2007-07-09 > > > > > > > > > > ----------- > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty e-mail > > > > > message to: > > > > > delphizip-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > and put the word unsubscribe in the subject. > > > > > > > > > > __________ NOD32 2384 (20070708) Information __________ > > > > > > > > > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > > > > > http://www.eset.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----------- > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty e-mail > > > > message to: > > > > delphizip-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > and put the word unsubscribe in the subject. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----------- > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty e-mail > > > message to: > > > delphizip-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > and put the word unsubscribe in the subject. > > > > > > > > > ----------- > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty e-mail > > > message to: > > > delphizip-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > and put the word unsubscribe in the subject. > > > > > > > > ----------- > > To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty e-mail > > message to: > > delphizip-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > and put the word unsubscribe in the subject. > > =20 > > =20 > > ----------- > > To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty e-mail > > message to: > > delphizip-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > and put the word unsubscribe in the subject. > > =20 > > __________ NOD32 2392 (20070711) Information __________ > > =20 > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > > ----------- > To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty e-mail > message to: > delphizip-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > and put the word unsubscribe in the subject. > > > ----------- > To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty e-mail > message to: > delphizip-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > and put the word unsubscribe in the subject. > > ----------- To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty e-mail message to: delphizip-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and put the word unsubscribe in the subject. ----------- To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty e-mail message to: delphizip-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and put the word unsubscribe in the subject.