OpenRCT2 cannot see folders with periods in their name
OS: [e.g. Windows 10]
Version: [e.g. 0.1.1]
Commit/Build: c581656
It would be helpful to be able to load files from folders with periods in their name.
spacek531
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This looks to me like a problem with the Windows platform code: windows.c#L358
AaronVanGeffen
on 15 Jan 2018
@AaronVanGeffen Agreed. There's no reason to exclude directory names with periods in them (even ones with leading periods, as they have no special status on Win apart from being hard to create!), I'd say that condition can go.
rwjuk
on 15 Jan 2018
@rwjuk It probably enumerates . and .. as well… But agreed, those should be treated as special cases, rather than this generalised condition.
(As an aside: the whole reason leading periods historically made a directories invisible on UNIX was because of an optimisation intended for the aforementioned two special cases!)
AaronVanGeffen
on 15 Jan 2018
Yeah, I remember reading about that! An unintended feature - probably the very first widely known one.
rwjuk
on 15 Jan 2018
cb720025facfc8d18ea9afef3e6432c2981886ec seems to have fixed this.
Broxzier
on 13 Mar 2018
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@rwjuk It probably enumerates
.and..as well… But agreed, those should be treated as special cases, rather than this generalised condition.(As an aside: the whole reason leading periods historically made a directories invisible on UNIX was because of an optimisation intended for the aforementioned two special cases!)