[PD] sys_gui outlet WAS: create folder implementation

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 14, 2010, at 11:45 AM, colet.patrice at free.fr wrote:

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> Selon IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>:
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>> as said before: we are dealing with asyncrhonous messages over the
>> internet here.
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> yes just seen this...
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>> something like "pd_send myrecname [ glob -type d My-Dir ]" should  
>> send
>> the output of the glob command back to Pd where it will magically  
>> appear
>> on the "myrecname" receiver.
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> pretty magics!
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> [pdsend "tcl-rcv [file isdirectory My-Dir<--[sys_gui]
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> [r tcl-rcv]--[sel 1]--[write My-Dir/My-File.txt cr<--[textfile]
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> this trick could reside in an abs, I've attached something like that.
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> so now all this stuff is possible inside PureData:
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> http://tmml.sourceforge.net/doc/tcl/
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> unless the commands that need {}



I like the idea of an outlet on sys_gui a lot.  It should probably  
just output a bang once the command you entered into sys_gui is  
finished.  Or perhaps it needs to output a copy of the message that  
was just sent.  Otherwise, if you send a lot of messages, it might be  
hard to tell which bang goes with which message.

Then for getting messages from the pdwindow and/or console, I think  
those should probably be separate objects, like [console].

Patco, if you want to try making it work, the code is in externals/hcs/ 
sys_gui.c.  That code is pretty simple. I think you could do it by  
appending something like "; pdsend "#sys_gui-receiver bang" to every  
command sent, then bind to the receiver name "#sys_gui-receiver" to  
get that bang.

.hc

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