<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Those particular error messages often return gibberish for the filename. I wonder why the error message doesn't use the char* filename:</div><div><br></div><div><div> error("Unable to find file: %#s", theFSSpec.name);</div></div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps the functions above don't put data into .name if it can't find a file. Anyone object if I change them to use 'filename' instead of theFSSpec.name?</div><div><br></div><div>.hc</div><br><div><div>On Mar 19, 2011, at 10:42 AM, chris clepper wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I algorithmically generated and loaded files into pix_film on OSX millions and millions of times using 'open $1' without error. It would be helpful to see what your filenames look like. <br> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 6:46 AM, sonia yuditskaya <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marysghost@gmail.com">marysghost@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Sorry, if I miss-filed the report (never filed one before).<div><br><div>To re-phrase the problem; [pix_film] would neither accept filenames with a $1 in them or a %s. In my case [pix_film] has consistently accepted filenames relative to the patch's folder, relative to Path however I have had no such success. Despite numerous attempts I've never been able to compile/download and have form gridflow, so cannot check that. </div> <div><br></div><div>Hope despite the sparseness of detail, this illuminates something in someone's experience to draw the problem out? Being able to algorithmically recall files through [pix_film] would be a useful feature in designing real-time, interactive, video based, systems (pick your favorite buzzword ;) </div> <div><br></div><div>in simulacra we trust,</div><div>] <a href="http://yuditskaya.com" target="_blank">yuditskaya.com</a> [<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Mathieu Bouchard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matju@artengine.ca" target="_blank">matju@artengine.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div>On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, sonia yuditskaya wrote:<br> <br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> solved the problem by sending variables to the [seek $1( message in the [unauthorized/playlist] object and feeding that to the [open $1( of [pix_film] don't why that works and the other one doesn't though.<br> bug submitted.<br> </blockquote> <br></div> I wrote all the details I wrote to you, in your bug report.<br> <br> BTW, the bug report I wanted to submit was about the error message, because that's the problem I know about, and without a good error message, it's hard to find whether [pix_film] has any real problem with the filename you give it. Thus $1 is not relevant in that bug report. But that's no big deal, because I posted all the details.<br> <br> BTW, doesn't [pix_film] require the full name of the movie ? It doesn't seem to be accepting filenames that are relative to the patch's folder, nor to the items in the Path's dialogue.<br> <br> [gf/find_file] finds a file and gives you the full filename. see <a href="http://gridflow.ca/" target="_blank">http://gridflow.ca/</a> for that external.<div><div></div><div><br> <br> _______________________________________________________________________<br> | Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: <a href="tel:%2B1.514.383.3801" target="_blank">+1.514.383.3801</a> ---- Villeray, Montréal, QC</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div> <br>_______________________________________________<br> <a href="mailto:Pd-list@iem.at">Pd-list@iem.at</a> mailing list<br> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> <a href="http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list" target="_blank">http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br> _______________________________________________<br><a href="mailto:Pd-list@iem.at">Pd-list@iem.at</a> mailing list<br>UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> <a href="http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list">http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list</a><br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><br style="font-family: Tahoma; "></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br style="font-family: Tahoma; "></div><div>There is no way to peace, peace is the way. -A.J. 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