[PD] Fwd: absolute vs relative filepath on oggread~

[Òscar Martínez Carmona]

Never done that before, excuse my idiocy and tell me how!
Thanx!


On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>wrote:

> On 02/05/2013 04:30 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 19:58 +0100, Òscar Martínez Carmona wrote:
> >> hey, still having problems with that, by now I'm doing it with the
> >> absolute filepath... maybe the solution it'll be making the main
> >> applicattion finding out the f*cking path and sending the whole thing
> >> to pd via OSC, or maybe trying it another day!
> >
> > If I am not mistaken, it hasn't been mentioned yet (though IOhannes
> > assumed it very early) in this thread that [oggread~ ] oddly reads
> > relative to Pd's start location (unlike many other classes like
> > [textfile] or [readsf~ ] which read relative to the patch's location).
> >
> > IMHO, this makes it very difficult for a patch writer to use relative
> > paths as the patch doesn't have any notion of where Pd was started from.
> > I consider the whole idea of reading relative to Pd's start location
> > flawed. A similar case is the 'open patch.pd path' message to [s pd].
> > Also this one reads relative to Pd's start location. However,
> > considering that it was implemented this way, because it probably
> > originates from the '-open' commandline flag, where it makes sense to
> > use a path relative to the current working directory for loading a
> > patch, this one is excused.
> >
> > For you, this means if your OSC application knows where Pd was started
> > from, you need to make it use a path relative to that location.
> > Otherwise you you're left with using absolute paths. When dealing with
> > objects like [oggread~], I'd go for absolute paths, it's just seems
> > safer and saner to deal with.
> >
> > (or someone fixes [oggread~ ], which I even wouldn't consider to break
> > backwards compatibility as the current implementation doesn't really
> > allow to use relativ paths in meaningful way)
> >
> > Roman
>
> I agree, relative should be relative to the patch. Please file a bug
> report on
> that.
>
> .hc
>
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Òscar Martínez Carmona
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