[PD] [getfilenames] alpha test release

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>> Oops, right. I looked at my auto-screenshot tool, which uses [folder_list], 
>> and it's using a messagebox with "add2", to build a list from the output of 
>> [folder_list]. But I only remembered using the list, not how I got to have 
>> a list in the first place.
> Seems like [folder_list] should probably output a proper list...  can anyone 
> shed any light on the advantages of the two approaches?

the list output approach allows to use [list split] on it in any way you 
want... go back and forth... access items by index.

First-next and start-next approaches are good when you're really thin on 
memory and have lots of files, which is very relative, considering how 
much RAM we have to waste these days.

The latter would have more of an advantage if you needed to output 
multi-element entries, especially when those entries have variable number 
of elements, but that typically doesn't happen with something like 
[folder_list] (it could happen for some other classes for which you'd ask 
yourself that question). It's related to the lack of nested-lists in Pd.

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