Bug with long path

[imcohen]

Hi everyone,

On Windows 10, when the path of the dropped file is too long, the callback function (event.data) returns a very strange different version of the path, similar to the following one (with many capital letters, numbers, and "~"):

<parent-path>/TEST_S~1/SAS_TE~1/L04_CO~1/EXPORT~1/IM08_P~1.VIS/IM08_P~1.DCM

This new encoding of the path prevents from accessing to dropped & dragged file, because it is not recognized anymore.

Could you please propose a solution to overcome this long path problem ?

Note that even if the registry has been modified as described here , the problem persists in TkinterDND.

Thank you for your help

[flopp]

That looks like old 8.3-style file names (=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.3_filename)...