[PD-dev] using the PD filepath in an external?

[Miller Puckette]

Yeah... open_via_path and scoop up the full path it reports back - then
close the file and let s7 reopen it :)

M
On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 03:26:35PM -0700, Iain Duncan wrote:
> Thanks Miller. Looking at that example, this seems to be a way to open and
> read in the whole file into C, which I could do, but the path of least
> resistance for me so far has been to pass the actual loading to s7. Is
> there a way to just get the full path for a file found from the Pd
> filepath? (if not, I suppose I'll read the file in and the eval_string on
> it or something...)
> 
> thanks!
> iain
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 3:13 PM Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu> wrote:
> 
> > open_via_path() should do it.  See for instance open_soundfile() in
> > d_soundfile.c
> >
> > cheers
> > M
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 02:57:16PM -0700, Iain Duncan wrote:
> > > Hi folks, I tried to google this, but of course am swamped with results
> > on
> > > how to load things in the patcher instead of what I'm looking for. Can
> > > anyone point me at how to use the filepath to load files in an external?
> > In
> > > Max I have s4m find the fullpath for the bootstrap files and then load
> > them
> > > up through s7s native load function with the fullpath. If anyone has an
> > > example of something similar for Pd, that would be lovely!
> > >
> > > thanks
> >
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