[PD] dir access

[B. Bogart]

I could not download tot yesterday on the windows machine, let me know how
it goes, perhaps if you have troubles I could wip up a tot abstraction for
drectory listing.

Ben
----- Original Message -----
From: <lists at martinmalm.com>
To: "Josh Steiner" <josh at vitriolix.com>
Cc: <lists at martinmalm.com>; <pd-list at iem.kug.ac.at>
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: [PD] dir access


> Hey !
>
> Thanks, this seems to be what I need ! Hope I can get it to work..
>
> regards /
>
> Martin
>
>
> > 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>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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