>>Hi, Everyone,
>>
>>Please help. I am using an Image Printer which only takes short file path and name, so I must convert the long file name that I use in VFP. So I found GetShortPathName in WIN32API. But I get very unpredictable results: sometimes the function succeds while other times fail with the exactly the same parameters that I pass to the function.
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>From Erik Moore's API article on the function (Windows API ID: 12642):
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>DECLARE INTEGER GetShortPathName IN Win32API ;
>   STRING  @cLongPath, ;
>   STRING  @cShortPathBuff, ;
>   INTEGER nBuffSize
>
>lcLongFile = "c:\program files\somefolder\my file name.doc"
>lcBuffer = SPACE(511)
>lnBufferSize = 511
>lnShortPathLen = GetShortPathName(lcLongFile, @lcBuffer, @lnBufferSize)
>
>lcShortPath = LEFT(lcBuffer, lnBufferSize)
>
>

I realize this is an old thread, but for the record, please note that the last line of Eric's example should read:

lcShortPath = LEFT(lcBuffer, lnShortPathLen)

Update: also I believe the last argument to GetShortPathName should not be passed by reference, and the declaration of the first argument doesn't seem to call for an "@", because this is a constant string (input). Only the second string argument is an output value. (I'm not sure if the use of @ on a string argument is really significant, except as a convention.)

Mike