[PD] directory of root canvas

[James Dunn]

That reminds me of something - is there something like this to get the
number of files in a directory?

thanks

James

2009/10/4 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>

>
> [getdir] may be what you want.  Its in 'ggee' and included in Pd-extended.
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> .hc
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> On Oct 4, 2009, at 1:45 PM, Orm Finnendahl wrote:
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>  Hi,
>>
>> sorry, this is probably trivial, but I can't seem to find the
>> solution: I use a self written external in a pd patch, which on setup
>> loads initialization data from subdirectories with relative pathnames
>> to the directory the patch lives in.
>>
>> Loading the pd patch from a terminal within the patches' directory
>> leads to pd having this directory as the current directory with all
>> relative paths working from there. Loading the patch with
>> double-clicking it will lead to pd starting from it's default
>> directory and the relative pathnames don't work from within the
>> external's setup routine.
>>
>> How is it possible to determine and then set pd's current/default
>> directory to the path, the external's root canvas is located at from
>> within the external?
>>
>> --
>> Orm
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