[PD] Relative path behaviour strange in GOP abstractions

[saint]

I'm on pd vanilla windows version 0.42-5.

I've a patch that relies heavily on file IO abstractions (sitting happily in the 'extra' folder), which are invoked by the main patch which until recently has been located in a different folder. These abstractions start looking for certain files and folders via 'makefilename' into the 'textfile' object like...

|read ../../$1/$2.txt(

I tried to make an abstraction (also located in 'extra') that was GOP. It used 3 instances of the file IO abstraction, where one instance was visible on parent and the 2 others hidden.

What I found was that the hidden abstractions began their relative path in the 'extra' folder as they should...

|read ../../$1/$2.txt( ... ...worked for the hidden only.

...but the VISIBLE abstractions began their relative path search in the PARENT'S patch folder. Such that...

|read ../$1/$2.txt( ... ...worked for the visible only.


Can anybody replicate this bug/suggest a workaround?


(The paths must be relative, as I need to port this around)

Thanks in advance as always,
John.