[PD-dev] another file path question for sp4d

[Iain Duncan]

Thanks Antoine, using canvas_open has fixed my issues and opening from
sub-dirs is working properly as well now.

iain

On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 8:55 AM Iain Duncan <iainduncanlists at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Antoine, re my last point: if the norm is that it should, then
> that's what I'll do. And is why I asked, thanks!
>
> iain
>
> On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 8:44 AM Antoine Rousseau <antoine at metalu.net>
> wrote:
>
>> the functions "canvas_open()" and "canvas_makefilename()" can do all this
>> for you, in the same way as other data files (texts, arrays, wavs...) are
>> opened.
>>
>> - do *not* traverse through all directories on the Pd search paths
>>>
>>
>> why not?  Is it a problem if it finds "scm/foo.scm" somewhere else? I say
>> that because "canvas_open()" and "canvas_makefilename()" WILL traverse Pd
>> search paths...
>>
>>
>> Antoine
>>
>>
>>
>> Le ven. 8 oct. 2021 à 17:01, Iain Duncan <iainduncanlists at gmail.com> a
>> écrit :
>>
>>> Hi folks, I want to solicit opinions from the broader Pd dev community
>>> before figuring out how to fix this bug report from Alex:
>>> https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-pd/issues/15
>>>
>>> His point was that a relative path didn't do what he expected, situation
>>> - an s4pd object created as "sp4d scm/my-file.scm"
>>>
>>> So this is what I think should happen for file searching, but will
>>> change my mind if it is not in accordance with what users would expect. The
>>> handling rules will be the same whether from a a "read {file}" message or
>>> an arg to the object:
>>>
>>> Proposed Rules:
>>> - absolute paths - opened
>>> - single file name paths:
>>>    - first look in the canvas directory
>>>    - then search all Pd paths
>>> - relative path names (i.e. "s4pd scm/foo.scm"):
>>>   - search in the canvas directory
>>>   - do *not* traverse through all directories on the Pd search paths
>>>
>>> Does that sound right? Or would the expectation be that it would search
>>> for scm/foo.js on all the search paths?
>>>
>>> Related, should it know how to do the right thing to convert unix style
>>> paths on windows?
>>>
>>> Please feel free to comment here or on the github ticket.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> iain
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