[PD] absolute vs relative filepath on oggread~

IOhannes m zmölnig zmoelnig at iem.at
Thu Jan 31 21:35:54 CET 2013


On 01/31/2013 21:33, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> On 01/31/2013 20:50, Andy Farnell wrote:
>>
>> Not sure what will happen on Windows regarding slash separators (?)
>> Might not be as portable as you hope.
>
> usually this is not a problem.
> for one thing, Pd (internally) provides ways to convert \ to /.

ah, you probably meant it the other way round: that the filenames via 
OSC are given backslash delimited ("movies\gross.ogg")

as long as only w32 receivers are involved, this *should* work, but just 
in case: filenames should preferably be sent with forward slashes 
("movies/gross.ogg").

gfasmdr
IOhannes



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