Ok this is magic thanks! I’ll update the thread with the new findings.
On 23 Jun 2022, at 14:48, Christof Ressi info@christofressi.com wrote:
Generally, Pd only uses forward slashes as file path seperators. You can use sys_bashfilename() on the path generated by tempnam().
On 23.06.2022 15:36, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay wrote:
Hello
In an external I use the superb tmpnam(x) to generate a temp file path to use and delete. All is good then… for MacOS and Linux that is! In Windows, the code in C does create a file but when I try to pass it to TCL to open there, like in the amazing ELSE’s pic, I can’t - the inverted backslash are deleted. I tried also, like in else, using open_canvas to no avail.
Now I tried to use on windows the ELSE’s pic to troubleshoot and it seems I have 2 problems:
#1:
- PIC will accept the file I create when it is on the Documents folder, but not the exact same file in the temp folder created by tmpnam. So this will work:
open C:/Users/pa/Documents/tmp.0.8eDtGO
But not this: open C:/Users/pa/appData/Local/tmp.0.8eDtGO
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#2
- PIC will only accept with straight slashes /
C:\Users\pa\Documents\tmp.0.8eDtGO
Won’t work but
C:/Users/pa/Documents/tmp.0.8eDtGO’
will
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So I wonder if there are pearls of wisdom on temp file generation for cross OS compile. At the moment, if I use the PIC hack of going through canvas_open I get a ‘void’ name, and if I don’t I get errors due to the backslash not being digested by TCL (it seems - the error is as above)
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Ps Alexandre, without you and your code, this object would not exist, so 39402940923 thanks!
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