[PD] abstraction's knowledge of parent's path

[Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu]

It's in the ggee.

Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu.

On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 01:59, Mike D'Ambrogia wrote:
> Krzysztof,
> 
> PD newbie, so I'm hoping that I haven't missed with my question, but I can't
> find a reference to [shell] anywhere.  I understand the message/operation
> that you're trying to get across, but I can;t seem to figure out how to
> implement it.
> 
> thanks
> 
> mike
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pd-list-admin at iem.kug.ac.at [mailto:pd-list-admin at iem.kug.ac.at]On
> > Behalf Of Krzysztof Czaja
> > Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 6:07 AM
> > To: David Sabine
> > Cc: pd-list at iem.kug.ac.at
> > Subject: Re: [PD] abstraction's knowledge of parent's path
> >
> >
> > hi David,
> >
> > I think there are two reasons for not having 'file...' and
> > '...path' objects in Pd.  One is that nobody is really willing to
> > write and maintain a spaghetti code.  The other is that, outside
> > of a Windows world, what you need is basically as easy as putting
> > whatever (eg. ls -t1 *.wav | head -1) into an executable file (eg.
> > named 'lastwave', eg. placed in a current dir), then putting
> > [loadbang]->'./lastwave'->[shell] into a patch.
> >
> > Krzysztof
> >
> > David Sabine wrote:
> > ...
> >  > When I close and reopen the patch, I'd sure like to be able to
> > look on the
> >  > hard drive for the most recent file, then begin where I left
> > off.  Example,
> >  > if "159.wav" was the last file written to the drive, then this
> > new session
> >  > would start at "160.wav".
> > ...
> >  > See, I've been thinking for some time that it would be VERY
> > handy if PD had
> >  > an object available that would allow PD to respond with
> > information about
> >  > the file system.  MAX has some objects for this purpose, like;
> >  >
> >  > [absolutepath]
> >  > [filedate]
> >  > [filein]
> >  > [filepath]
> >  > [relativepath]
> >
> >
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