From 926fdecd13cb1f892b7d0ca8285d17584b5e448a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Irmen de Jong <irmen@razorvine.net>
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2022 11:54:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix problematic path handling on windows in error messages

---
 codeCore/src/prog8/code/core/Position.kt | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/codeCore/src/prog8/code/core/Position.kt b/codeCore/src/prog8/code/core/Position.kt
index f4b7032c7..48d271c1a 100644
--- a/codeCore/src/prog8/code/core/Position.kt
+++ b/codeCore/src/prog8/code/core/Position.kt
@@ -1,13 +1,19 @@
 package prog8.code.core
 
+import java.nio.file.InvalidPathException
 import kotlin.io.path.Path
 import kotlin.io.path.absolute
 
 data class Position(val file: String, val line: Int, val startCol: Int, val endCol: Int) {
     override fun toString(): String = "[$file: line $line col ${startCol+1}-${endCol+1}]"
     fun toClickableStr(): String {
-        val path = Path(file).absolute().normalize()
-        return "file://$path:$line:$startCol:"
+        return try {
+            val path = Path(file).absolute().normalize().toString()
+            "file://$path:$line:$startCol:"
+        } catch(x: InvalidPathException) {
+            // this can occur on Windows when the source origin contains "invalid" characters such as ':'
+            "file://$file:$line:$startCol:"
+        }
     }
 
     companion object {