[PD] dir access

[Josh Steiner]

http://suita.chopin.edu.pl/~czaja/miXed/externs/toys.html

lists at martinmalm.com wrote:

>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
>
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>>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
>>
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>>>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
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>>>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
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>>>would be handy!
>>>
>>>To make this issue even more complex: the .NET framework now provides an
>>>      
>>>
>>API
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>>>to zip/compress, send mail, edit and resize images, and even return MP3
>>>      
>>>
>>file
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>>>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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