[PD] R: Re: saving relative paths in a textfile

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, Athos Bacchiocchi wrote:

> If i didn't misunderstood, your hint is to get the patch's path and 
> compare it with the sound file's path given by openpanel, to obtain a 
> relative path.

Well, I didn't have a complete idea of how to do it ; I only stated how 
I'd get started.

> And i will try to get: ../samples/sound.wav I guess starting with [s2l] 
> and some list comparing objects. Am I on the right "path"? :)

Yes, I think so.

> PS: i tried opening the patch doing cd /home/athos/pd/mypatch pdextended 
> mypatch.pd and i still get an absolute path from [gf/find_file 0]

I don't know why. Lucky you. ;)

Actually, maybe I wrote something wrong. Now I find that the problem is 
specifically with :
   pd -send "pd open find_file-help.pd gf"
and even worse :
   pd -send "pd open gf/find_file-help.pd ."

One is not supposed to use a relative name as the $2 of "pd open", but 
then, it doesn't get rejected either.

  _______________________________________________________________________
| Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- Villeray, Montréal, QC