[PD-dev] file search path proposal

[Winfried Ritsch]

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mfg winfried

Am Mittwoch, 7. November 2018, 16:30:56 CET schrieb Dan Wilcox:
> In working with sample file paths for a project, I again run into the issue
> that [readsf~] expects relative paths to it's patch. This means I have to
> generate a full path if it's used within an abstraction. This works, but it
> currently requires an external, both in vanilla and my usage of libpd in
> PdParty.
> 
> After the small work I did with [declare -path] search mechanism, I'm
> thinking of something similar for the core objects that read/write files
> such as [textfile], [soundfiler], [writesf~], etc:
> 
> * absolute path: work as normal (current behavior)
> * relative path starting with ./ or ../: always relative to containing patch
> (current behavior) * relative path (without ./ or ../): relative to
> top-level parent, ie. parent patch using an abstraction (new behavior)
> 
> This would mean the default behavior would change to what I believe is the
> *expected* behavior by most: sending a relative path to an object is
> relative to whatever main patch is using the object, whether it's in an
> abstraction (however many levels deep) or not. This also means projects
> which use these objects on their main level would work normally.
> 
> The only thing that might break would be using one of these objects within
> an abstraction and *expecting* the path to be relative to the abstraction,
> not any parent. In this case, I introduce the explicit ./ or ../ check
> which forces the paths to be treated as relative to the abstraction.
> 
> This also implicitly removes the *urgent* need for a suite of fuel path
> objects, at least for me. :)
> 
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> Dan Wilcox
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