hmmm. i did try that but it seems to stumble at the first space in the full path (as pure data does)

unfortunately the patch will need to be ported around when it's done so specifying a full path won't fulfill my needs.

is there a .dll of the midifile external for w32 knocking around for which this read message works for shortened paths?



again, thanks all of you for your time!


----- Original Message ----
From: Mike McGonagle <mjmogo@gmail.com>
To: saint <saintidle@yahoo.com>
Cc: pd-list@iem.at
Sent: Tuesday, 12 February, 2008 7:22:29 PM
Subject: Re: [PD] Phasor Driven Midi File Playback?

I think what is happening is that [midifile] is expecting a full path for the file name when using read. This is why it works for the [openpanel] because it returns a complete path. Did you try using the full path with [read $1(?

Mike


On Feb 12, 2008 12:33 PM, saint <saintidle@yahoo.com> wrote:
thanks for the quick reply again martin,

it's a strange problem that i seem to be having.
because i definitely have all the midifiles in the same folder as the patch but

[midifile test.mid]
...or...
[read test.mid(---[midifile]
gives... 'error: midifile: unable to open test.mid'

but when i do
[bang]---[openpanel]---[read $1(---[midifile]
and point it to 'test.mid' it seems to work?

hmmmm...
unfortunately for what i want to do i need to be able to automate opening different midifiles.
i'm using your zip from http://puredata.info/Members/martinrp/midifile/midifile.zip/view


thanks again in advance!

----- Original Message ----
From: Martin Peach <martin.peach@sympatico.ca>
To: saintidle@yahoo.com; pd-list@iem.at
Sent: Tuesday, 12 February, 2008 5:13:00 PM
Subject: Re: [PD] Phasor Driven Midi File Playback?

saint wrote:
>
>hi martin,
>
>been trying your midifile object and it's working nicely.

great!

>
>is there a way to send it a [read test.mid{ message or a [read
>folder/test.mid{ message?
>
>i need to automate opening a bunch of files without using the 'openpanel'
>object.
>

Just like that.
Or send a message or symbol containing the path to the [read $1( message.
It's probably easier if all the files are in the same directory as the
patch.

Martin





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