Minor bug found in 4c

jcarney42 wrote on 6/23/2003, 5:46 PM
This has to do with some jpeg images I downloaded from a Jolene Blalock fan site (hosted on yahoo).
If you've ever noticed how IE will put a percent sign as a place holder for an empty space or as a replacement for the space character between letters when saving a file? It turns out when you try to import the file (via the Media pool) with this '%' still in the file name, Vegas will crash. Apparantly
there is still some sort of null pointer in the file name or something.
And when I mean crash, I mean hit the detail button, then Vegas shuts down. Lost some work because I hadn't saved recently and autosave was out of date.

If you try to add a percent sign to any existing file, this will not happen. So it's something IE does to the filename that is causing the problem.

I went and changed the file names to remove the percent sign and everything went well.

Nothing major, just a heads up.

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 6/23/2003, 5:54 PM
Ahhh, the dreaded %20 ... this is actually a hexadecimal code for a space character. Most internet software will interpret this as a space since hex 20 (decimal 32) is the ascii code for space. This is done because most older internet software didn't allow spaces in file names (personal side note, i think spaces should *NOT* be allowed in file names ever, but that's just my personal rant) or many other characters such as quotes %22, commas %2c, parentheses %28 %29, etc. So, the workaround of using % followed by the two digit hex code for various characters was adopted. The problem is that most browsers won't change these codes back into their ascii equivalents when saving the file, and lots of non-internet software isn't prepared to handle them.

The best thing to do is to rename the file to remove these codes when saving them from the browser. Well, actually the best thing would be for people to stop using characters such as spaces in their file names to begin with ;). However, renaming as you save is a close second.
jcarney42 wrote on 6/28/2003, 8:53 PM
Yes, I rename the files now when the %20 shows up in the name. It's one of the annoying bugs you can't test for, only find out when it happens in the field. And like I said, mostly a heads up, not a serious problem.
jcarney42 wrote on 6/28/2003, 8:53 PM
Yes, I rename the files now when the %20 shows up in the name. It's one of the annoying bugs you can't test for, only find out when it happens in the field. And like I said, mostly a heads up, not a serious problem.