[PD] Phasor Driven Midi File Playback?

[Mike McGonagle]

I think what is happening is that [midifile] is expecting a full path for
the file name when using read. This is why it works for the [openpanel]
because it returns a complete path. Did you try using the full path with
[read $1(?

Mike


On Feb 12, 2008 12:33 PM, saint <saintidle at yahoo.com> wrote:

> thanks for the quick reply again martin,
>
> it's a strange problem that i seem to be having.
> because i definitely have all the midifiles in the same folder as the
> patch but
>
> [midifile test.mid]
> ...or...
> [read test.mid(---[midifile]
> gives... 'error: midifile: unable to open test.mid'
>
> but when i do
> [bang]---[openpanel]---[read $1(---[midifile]
> and point it to 'test.mid' it seems to work?
>
> hmmmm...
> unfortunately for what i want to do i need to be able to automate opening
> different midifiles.
> i'm using your zip from
> http://puredata.info/Members/martinrp/midifile/midifile.zip/view
>
>
> thanks again in advance!
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Martin Peach <martin.peach at sympatico.ca>
> To: saintidle at yahoo.com; pd-list at iem.at
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 February, 2008 5:13:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] Phasor Driven Midi File Playback?
>
> saint wrote:
> >
> >hi martin,
> >
> >been trying your midifile object and it's working nicely.
>
> great!
>
> >
> >is there a way to send it a [read test.mid{ message or a [read
> >folder/test.mid{ message?
> >
> >i need to automate opening a bunch of files without using the 'openpanel'
>
> >object.
> >
>
> Just like that.
> Or send a message or symbol containing the path to the [read $1( message.
> It's probably easier if all the files are in the same directory as the
> patch.
>
> Martin
>
>
>
>
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