[PD] dir access

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Wed Aug 20 18:55:00 CEST 2003


Hey !

Thanks, this seems to be what I need ! Hope I can get it to work..

regards /

Martin


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> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>>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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