[PD] dir access

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Hi Ben and everyone else !


TOT sounds like a good solution, but the only problem is that I have no
idea of what it is and how to use it in a patch. Could you point me in the
right direction ?

Thanks for all help :)

regards /

Martin

> TOT will probably do this, as you can get a file listing (and copy delete
> etc.. ) very easily in tcl...
>
> glob *
>
> file rename
> file delete
> file copy
>
> etc..
>
> Try this before writing something!
>
> Ben
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Sabine" <dave at davesabine.com>
> To: <lists at martinmalm.com>; "'Luke Yelavich'" <lukethemuso at ozemail.com.au>
> Cc: <pd-list at iem.kug.ac.at>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 6:35 AM
> Subject: RE: [PD] dir access
>
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I posted a similar questions months ago...the response from the
>> developers
>> seemed to be this:
>>
>> 1.  it's easy on linux/PD (something about shell commands)
>> 2.  it's impossible on win/PD
>>
>> Actually, it's not impossible, but somebody mentioned that performing
>> this
>> operation on Windows, being that the file system is handled so
>> differently
>> in each OS, would lead to spaghetti code that might eventually become
>> very
>> difficult to handle in PD.
>>
>> Having said that, I think it would be a very powerful tool and would
>> like
> to
>> see some development in this area.
>>
>> I work a lot in ASP (for 'web' stuff) and make frequent use of the
>> "Scripting.FileSystemObject" in Visual Basic to return collections of
>> folders, files, etc.  Using this object one can also move, delete,
>> rename
>> and copy files on the fly.  I don't know how this functionality could be
>> provided within PD, because my knowledge of 'C' is so limited...but it
> sure
>> would be handy!
>>
>> To make this issue even more complex: the .NET framework now provides an
> API
>> to zip/compress, send mail, edit and resize images, and even return MP3
> file
>> attributes (like name, composer, album, year released, bit rate, etc).
>> I
>> wonder if PD will even incorporate some of these tools?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dave Sabine
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pd-list-admin at iem.at [mailto:pd-list-admin at iem.at] On Behalf Of
>> lists at martinmalm.com
>> Sent: August 20, 2003 3:43 AM
>> To: Luke Yelavich
>> Cc: lists at martinmalm.com; pd-list at iem.kug.ac.at
>> Subject: Re: [PD] dir access
>>
>> Hi !
>>
>> No, the openpanel is not what I'm looking for.  I need to load an
>> unknown
>> number of images and movies into different buffers depending on their
>> names and extensions.
>>
>> I know that there is an object in MAX that can search a folder and
>> return
>> the contents as a list, so I was wondering if someone has created
>> something like it for PD.
>>
>> cheers /
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
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