[softwarelist] Bookmark names - OPro RO
- From: Gavin Crawford <gav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:50:44 +0100
Hi David,
Is there a maximum allowed length of a bookmark name when using
bmcreate()?
I can safely create a bookmark with a name of up to 19 characters, but
20 causes OPro to crash with a type 5 internal error.
I was hoping to find that it would allow longer names to be used, up
to 40 characters would have been perfect, but even so, maybe a more
graceful approach to dealing with lengths over 19 chars should be
added, rather than causing a type 5
Not sure what though?
It could either just take the first 19 characters of the name and
create the bookmark as per usual, the problem being if a number of
bookmarks are being created with similar names longer than 19 chars,
such as
'This_is_a_long_bookmark_name_1', 'This_is_a_long_bookmark_name_2'
would then end up with both creations using the name
'This_is_a_long_book'.
I've not checked what happens when two bookmarks are created with the
same name, whether it supplies different handles for each or the
second overrides the first.
The other approach is not to create a bookmark at all and bmcreate()
return 0/FALSE. Although this could potentially break existing applets
as they wouldn't be checking for a handle returned as zero and could
just expect the returned value to be valid. But then existing applets
must already be using names less than 20 characters or they would be
working, so maybe this doesn't matter too much?
Just though I'd open this up for discussion,
Gavin
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