[PD] Midifile Object

[Martin Peach]

The way it works now [midifile] reads from the same directory that pd is in 
unless you specify the full path. It should be possible to get it to search 
in the patch directory, probably by calling canvas_open in pd. I'll look 
into it this weekend.

Martin


>From: saint <saintidle at yahoo.com>
>To: pd-list at iem.at
>Subject: [PD] Midifile Object
>Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:26:07 -0800 (PST)
>
>hi martin/all,
>
>sorry for buggin you about this again, but unfortunately i can't use your 
>(or any) midi external
>for my purpose if i can't get this to work.
>
>the problem i'm having with midifile is this: i can't get midifile to read 
>a .mid file that's in the
>same folder as the pd patch by referring to it by it's short name only
>i.e. without the full path c:/progra~1/etc/etc (which does work btw, 
>thanks)
>
>is there anyway to get this...
>
>[read test.mid(
>|
>[midifile]
>
>...to work?!
>
>(where the midi file and pd patch are in the same folder of course)
>
>basically i need to copy multiple instances of the patch and run it from 
>lots of different folders
>each referring to different midi files
>
>again thanks a million in advance you've been more than helpful so far!
>