[PD] declare and abstraction (cont.)

[rolfm at dds.nl]

hi miller,

thanks for investigating this 'problem'.

my patch is randomly reading wav's from a library(=folder).
for that it needs first to find out what's in the folder.

which is done with [moocow/readdir].
(i don't know another way)

to give [readdir] the right directory i was using "../sounds".
this doesn't work when Pd is started first.

with [getdir] i hoped to have a workaround.
however [getdir], following Pd, gives different answers,
depending whether a [declare -path .] is used or not.

strange enough (?) using "./sounds" seems to work ok.
it would mean to put the folder with wav's inside the patch folder.

which of course isn't a very elegant solution.

ciao, rolf


Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu> schreef:

> OK... but I don't see any problem there - 'empty' gets saved to the correct
> place, just with a different spaling of the file path, correct?  I  
> thought the
> original problem was in not being able to load a soundfile from a  
> 'declared' folder
> somehow.
>
> cheers
> Miller
>
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 12:11:09PM +0100, rolfm at dds.nl wrote:
>> hi miller
>>
>> here's the zip
>>
>> i'm on Windows 7
>>
>> ciao,rolf