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require 'ffi'

module EightThree
  extend FFI::Library
  ffi_lib 'kernel32'
  ffi_convention :stdcall
  
=begin
DWORD WINAPI GetShortPathName(
  __in   LPCTSTR lpszLongPath,
  __out  LPTSTR lpszShortPath,
  __in   DWORD cchBuffer
);
=end

  attach_function :path_to_8_3, :GetShortPathNameA, [:pointer, :pointer, :uint], :uint
  def self.convert_path_to_8_3 path
    out = FFI::MemoryPointer.new 256 # bytes
    path_to_8_3(path, out, out.size)
    out = out.get_string 0
    if out.size == 0
      raise 'unable to convert--probably file does not exist yet ' + path
    else
     out
    end
  end

end

Version data entries

7 entries across 7 versions & 2 rubygems

Version	Path
content-editing-movie-player-0.38.0	lib/eight_three.rb
sensible-cinema-0.35.3	lib/eight_three.rb
sensible-cinema-0.34.0	lib/eight_three.rb
sensible-cinema-0.28.1	lib/eight_three.rb
sensible-cinema-0.28.0	lib/eight_three.rb
sensible-cinema-0.27.0	lib/eight_three.rb
sensible-cinema-0.26.3	lib/eight_three.rb