[PD] converting an absolute to relative file path

Antonio Roberts antonio at hellocatfood.com
Mon May 9 13:37:30 CEST 2011


Alternatively you could use [playlist], which is an in-patch file
browser. by sending [location /folder/path/ ( to the object it'll jump
to that location and you can also restrict what is displayed to a
specific file extension.

Ant

2011/5/9 András Murányi <muranyia at gmail.com>:
>
> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:40, matteo sisti sette
> <matteosistisette at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to use [openpanel] to let a user easily chose a file without
>> having to type its name, but then I would like to take the relative
>> path of the file (relative to the patch) rather than its full absolute
>> path. Is there a way to accomplish that?
>>
>> Is there some external that would take an absolute path as a symbol,
>> compare it to the current working directory, and return a relative
>> path to the same file?
>>
>> Alternatively, is there an external that can return the current
>> working directory? On top of that, I could build an abstraction that
>> would do almost what I need at least under some restrictions (e.g.
>> when the file is in a descendant of the current folder)....
>>
>> Thanks
>> m.
>
> I use [absolutepath] and [relativepath] from moonlib.
>
> Andras
>
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