[PD] Install path assumptions for [soundfiler] vs [file glob]

Roman Haefeli reduzent at gmail.com
Tue Jan 11 14:50:23 CET 2022


On Tue, 2022-01-11 at 13:41 +0000, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay wrote:
> 
> With that footnote, I was hopeful to get [file which] to give me the
> path of [media/] but no luck.

[file which] only searches for files in all search paths. It doesn't
work for directories.
> 
> I’ve also tried to find a way to get [dir] from pdcontrol

My suggestion was to use the message 'dir' sent to [pdcontrol] object:

[dir(
|
[pdcontrol]

This returns the directory of the patch. You said that the media folder
is not located near your patch. So, I assume it is in your search paths
then. Then I don't know to get its location as absolute path. Sorry.

Roman
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