<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">thanks for the quick reply again martin,<br><br>it's a strange problem that i seem to be having.<br>because i definitely have all the midifiles in the same folder as the patch but<br><br>[midifile test.mid]<br>...or...<br>[read test.mid(---[midifile]<br>gives... 'error: midifile: unable to open test.mid'<br><br>but when i do<br>[bang]---[openpanel]---[read $1(---[midifile]<br>and point it to 'test.mid' it seems to work?<br><br>hmmmm...<br>unfortunately for what i want to do i need to be able to automate opening different midifiles.<br><span>i'm using your zip from <a target="_blank"
href="http://puredata.info/Members/martinrp/midifile/midifile.zip/view">http://puredata.info/Members/martinrp/midifile/midifile.zip/view</a></span><br><br><br>thanks again in advance!<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Martin Peach <martin.peach@sympatico.ca><br>To: saintidle@yahoo.com; pd-list@iem.at<br>Sent: Tuesday, 12 February, 2008 5:13:00 PM<br>Subject: Re: [PD] Phasor Driven Midi File Playback?<br><br>saint
wrote:<br>><br>>hi
martin,<br>><br>>been
trying
your
midifile
object
and
it's
working
nicely.<br><br>great!<br><br>><br>>is
there
a
way
to
send
it
a
[read
test.mid{
message
or
a
[read <br>>folder/test.mid{
message?<br>><br>>i
need
to
automate
opening
a
bunch
of
files
without
using
the
'openpanel' <br>>object.<br>><br><br>Just
like
that.<br>Or
send
a
message
or
symbol
containing
the
path
to
the
[read
$1(
message.<br>It's
probably
easier
if
all
the
files
are
in
the
same
directory
as
the <br>patch.<br><br>Martin<br><br><br></div><br></div></div><br>
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