Perfect! That one's much more comprehensible for my less-than-stellar C chops.  :-)

thanks!

On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 3:36 PM Miller Puckette <msp@ucsd.edu> wrote:

Exactly.

I now see that there's a better example in the binbuf_read_via_canvas()
function in m_binbuf.c

cheers
M

On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 03:31:17PM -0700, Iain Duncan wrote:
> Ah got it, presumably I get what I'm looking for in char *dirresult?
>
> assumption taken from:
> EXTERN int open_via_path(const char *dir, const char *name, const char *ext,
>     char *dirresult, char **nameresult, unsigned int size, int bin);
>
> thanks again!
>
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 3:28 PM Miller Puckette <msp@ucsd.edu> wrote:
>
> > Yeah... open_via_path and scoop up the full path it reports back - then
> > close the file and let s7 reopen it :)
> >
> > M
> > On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 03:26:35PM -0700, Iain Duncan wrote:
> > > Thanks Miller. Looking at that example, this seems to be a way to open
> > and
> > > read in the whole file into C, which I could do, but the path of least
> > > resistance for me so far has been to pass the actual loading to s7. Is
> > > there a way to just get the full path for a file found from the Pd
> > > filepath? (if not, I suppose I'll read the file in and the eval_string on
> > > it or something...)
> > >
> > > thanks!
> > > iain
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 3:13 PM Miller Puckette <msp@ucsd.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > > open_via_path() should do it.  See for instance open_soundfile() in
> > > > d_soundfile.c
> > > >
> > > > cheers
> > > > M
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 02:57:16PM -0700, Iain Duncan wrote:
> > > > > Hi folks, I tried to google this, but of course am swamped with
> > results
> > > > on
> > > > > how to load things in the patcher instead of what I'm looking for.
> > Can
> > > > > anyone point me at how to use the filepath to load files in an
> > external?
> > > > In
> > > > > Max I have s4m find the fullpath for the bootstrap files and then
> > load
> > > > them
> > > > > up through s7s native load function with the fullpath. If anyone has
> > an
> > > > > example of something similar for Pd, that would be lovely!
> > > > >
> > > > > thanks
> > > >
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