View Desktop/Viewtop "goto"

[Gord]

When I try and 'goto' a local file on my hard drive that has a space in the file name it seems to gag.  What is with that?  How do I work around it?

   Using 'Find' I can select the directory but when I press the "Goto" button is pop up a requester that is truncated to the path name up to the first space in the filename.

  Example:

  M:\Program Files\Rebol\view

gets truncated to

M:\Program

[Graham]

Have you tried using quotes around the path?

[Gord]

Yes, I've tried putting double quotes, single quotes around the path with and without the percent (%) sign, using forward slashed, back slashes, leading slash(es), triailing slash.  Can't seem to come up with a combo that lets you get to things like "Documents and Setting" or "Program Files".  Very frustrating.

[Graham]

try this

file://"C/Program Files/whatever/script.r"

Works for me.

[Gord]

Thanks for the answer.  At least it doesn't cause an error.  Very similar to using the 'Find...' button on the side.  It lets you pick a file and shows it in the 'history' list but nothing happens.  IOW, it doesn't really 'Goto' that file - just stays at the current desktop display.

[Graham]

I'm sure when I tried it above, it ran the script I pointed to.

But the good thing about the Viewtop is that the sources have released for you to change the behaviour to that which you desire.

[Gord]

Thanks Graham for the input.  i tried it again - serveral times pointing to several Rebol programs and even tried to sub the %20 for the space character and still no go.

Modifying Viewtop may be an option but I wanted to know that it worked for others.  If View (Version 1.158.0 aka 1.3.2.3.1 ) and Viewtop (Version 1.36.0)  'Goto' works for others then it would be simplier to find out why it's not working for me.

Presently, it is just easier to modify the index.r to add any program I want to run.