At 08:29 27.08.2004, you wrote:

hi

if you have several [openpanel]s in a patch, everyone for loading files from a separate folder, it could be quite 'search-intensive' to load different files, because you always have to go in the rigth folder first. is there a solution for this problem like setting a startpath?

by the way something else from my wishlist: an option in [openpanel] to set a suffix for a filetype to be visible in the opendialog would be great...

i have no pd here right now but using pyext this script should do it (untested): save that script into the same dir as your patch and give it the name "filedialog.py" make an object [pyext filedialog openpanel]. now you can send messages [dir /tmp( and [ext .wav( to set startpath and extension and [open( to open the dialog... let me know if it works. sven.

import tkFileDialog import pyext

class openpanel(pyext._class): _inlets=1 _outlets=1

     def __init__(self):
             self.dir = ''
             self.ext = ''

     def dir_1(self, dir):
             self.dir = dir

     def ext_1(self,ext):
             self.ext = ext

     def open_1(self):
             f = tkFileDialog.askopenfilename(initialdir = self.dir, 

defaultextension = self.ext) self._outlet(1,f)