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On Windows, for ID, Forward, RRA, CMC, Analyze, the default output directory path uses "\"s

Open carmichaelong opened this issue 6 years ago • 4 comments

Steps to reproduce

  1. Open any model
  2. Open ID, Forward, RRA, CMC, or Analyze tool
  3. Look at the default name given for the output folder

Expected result

A path with "/"s

Actual result

A path with "\"s

Environment and GUI version

Windows ONLY. Mac correctly has "/"s in path.

carmichaelong avatar Nov 07 '18 23:11 carmichaelong

@carmichaelong I edited your post to escape the backslash.

chrisdembia avatar Nov 07 '18 23:11 chrisdembia

@carmichaelong @chrisdembia is this an issue because we try to use the same files cross platform? We use paths returned by file browsers as is but maybe we need to store in unix only form so that they are cross platform, or just use Mac 😄

aymanhab avatar Nov 08 '18 20:11 aymanhab

Exactly, we thought that this might be an issue depending on how they are saved in setup files so that they could be used cross platform. I haven't done any testing to specifically check how these paths are stored in files from a Windows machines yet, though.

carmichaelong avatar Nov 08 '18 21:11 carmichaelong

Fixing this would be fantastic, because it's very common for users to send around non-portable setup files. However, I think this can be addressed after the 4.0 release.

chrisdembia avatar Nov 08 '18 21:11 chrisdembia