[PD] clear console command + create folder from Pd?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 7, 2011, at 4:35 PM, João Pais wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> is it possible to do the following in Pd?
> 
> - clear the console with some command sent to [s pd] (not with the shortcut)

pd isn't really aware of the console, so you need to send a message to the GUI:

[menu_clear_console(
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[hcs/sys_gui]

> - is there any object that allows to create a folder (in all OSs)? I wanted to save files to a non-existing folder, but Pd doesn't create one.

You could probably use Tcl's mkdir and send it to the GUI:

[file mkidr /path/to/mynewfolder(
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[hcs/sys_gui]

.hc


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