One of the main purposes I used the Max pop-up menus for was to load audio and video files on the fly, and I'm happy to report that there is a nice external called playlist from Yves that will do something similar. This graphical object will display the contents of a directory and allow you to select a file and put the path into a message which you can feed to the right object in pd or GEM. It's of course not quite as flexible as the max version, but I have found it useful.
Maybe Yves or someone can modify it to take arbitrary lists and save that data with patch info or to a separate file? That might make it match the max menu features a little better.
Find playlist for OSX and Linux here: http://ydegoyon.free.fr/software.html
cgc
Quoting doktorp doktorp@mac.com:
On Saturday, November 1, 2003, at 05:53 AM, doktorp wrote:
Any exernal, or plan to implement the famous ubumenu from max?
any alternatives?
thanks!
-dok