[PD] create folder implementation

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:12 +0100, colet.patrice at free.fr wrote:
> Selon Matteo Sisti Sette <matteosistisette at gmail.com>:
> 
> > I guess you're using windows too, right?
> 
> yes
> >
> > > Fortunately I've keeped a working release, but it works with python24 only:
> >
> > Oh, would you please send it to me? (or is it online somewhere?)
> >
> 
> it's attached
> 
> 
> > >  The create folder feature could be implemented in pd, or rather tcl
> > command
> > > lines could be used through pd messaging system without an external since
> > it
> > > already uses tcl for the client side
> >
> > That sounds very interesting. Is it possible with the current stable pd
> > release or you mean with the new pdGuiRewrite thing?
> >
> 
> well, it's just an idea that sometimes comes in the top of my fingers,
> this
> doesn't seem to be implemented yet, maybe there is a good reason for
> that.
> 
> > Can you point me to some resource to learn how to do that?
> 
> PureData code has a function for doing nasty things like this with tcl
> called
> sys_vgui() and could be one beginning point, the purpose of one idea
> would be
> about sending tcl commands through pd messaging sytem, but pd doesn't
> like some
> usefull characters in tcl like "{","}", "[",..., so another idea is about
> having
> an internal for loading tcl script 'à la ' [pyext], for the moment it's
> possible
> to use the great job of Federico Ferri called pdtcl, but at this point,
> any
> other external for script language would be a method like another
> 
> in fact the topic seems to be pending still...
> 
>  http://www.mail-archive.com/pd-dev@iem.at/msg02391.html

I wrote an external called [sys_gui] that allows you to send Tcl to the
GUI from Pd. While you can't (yet?) use {} you can use "" and [] and
that gets you a long way.

.hc