[PD-announce] "browser" - alpha state ...

[oliver]

hi, list

inspired by yves degoyon's playlist and due to the fact that this fine 
object is not yet ported to windows, i tried to make a similar thing with
objects already existing within windows PD.

it's pretty much alpha state and needs a bunch of libraries (IEMLIB1, 
IEMLIB2, MOTEX, HAMMER (or CYCLONE), ZEXY) plus a small dos-utility to 
make it work right. all the necessary files are included in this .zip file:

http://www.klingt.org/~oliver/pd/browser.zip

at the moment it only changes directories and outputs the name of a 
selected file to a print-object. it's all one-click, and $0-featured, 
which means, several independent "browser" patches should be possible. 
if it works right it can easily be made into a GOP.

during patching i was extremely confused about PD's working directory 
issues. i noticed, when i started Pd with a batch-file, and then loaded 
"browser.pd" with the open-message, PD's working directory was the one 
of the batch-file. however, when i double-clicked "browser.pd" (which 
would then be opened with the same batch file as %1), PD's working 
directory was the one where "browser.pd" resided. any hints on that (and 
maybe some tips about  proper dos-scripting) would be helpful.

another wish for a near future: to be allowed to use and type 
backslashes within windows PD !!!

(in fact: the only need for the included dos-utility "gsar" is to 
replace the \ with a / in a temporary .txt files)



hoping for some brave souls to test this and/or find it useful
comments and bug reports and new ideas are highly appreciated

oliver

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