hi, list
inspired by yves degoyon's playlist and due to the fact that this fine object is not yet ported to windows, i tried to make a similar thing with objects already existing within windows PD.
it's pretty much alpha state and needs a bunch of libraries (IEMLIB1, IEMLIB2, MOTEX, HAMMER (or CYCLONE), ZEXY) plus a small dos-utility to make it work right. all the necessary files are included in this .zip file:
http://www.klingt.org/~oliver/pd/browser.zip
at the moment it only changes directories and outputs the name of a selected file to a print-object. it's all one-click, and $0-featured, which means, several independent "browser" patches should be possible. if it works right it can easily be made into a GOP.
during patching i was extremely confused about PD's working directory issues. i noticed, when i started Pd with a batch-file, and then loaded "browser.pd" with the open-message, PD's working directory was the one of the batch-file. however, when i double-clicked "browser.pd" (which would then be opened with the same batch file as %1), PD's working directory was the one where "browser.pd" resided. any hints on that (and maybe some tips about proper dos-scripting) would be helpful.
another wish for a near future: to be allowed to use and type backslashes within windows PD !!!
(in fact: the only need for the included dos-utility "gsar" is to replace the \ with a / in a temporary .txt files)
hoping for some brave souls to test this and/or find it useful comments and bug reports and new ideas are highly appreciated
oliver