I wanted to work a bit on directory listing with TOT because I use WINXP. I built this patch, but it crashes often and relies on too many externals (tot, zexy, cyclone). Please take a look.
From this link (http://www.colba.net/~frederi/folderx.zip), you can
download the patch (try folderx-ex/pd). Here are a few questions :
- What is the the limit imposed by the pdgui->pd connecetion
- my folderx.pd patch does not work because it does not handle spaces
in file names! What to do? 3) check out the included jpeg... what's all the garbage????
Maybe the solution would be
- to use TOT to find the number of files in a folder
- then use TOT to retreive the name of one file at a time with a float
message like in PLAYLIST for osX and linux. Tried to do it, but kept on crashing PD because I do not know TOT scripting.
Please help! No need for a gui.
Tom iamonthebeach@hotmail.com
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Krzysztof Czaja czaja@chopin.edu.pl Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:25:58 +0200
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hi Ben,
this is a bit cryptic, but hopefully works:
query set dir [tk_chooseDirectory] .: if .($dir != "" && ![catch .(glob [file join $dir *.txt].) res].) .(set res.)
Send this to a [tot .] -> [route bang] and read from the right outlet of the route.
The trickier problem is, how to deal with large lists of filenames -- there is a limit imposed by the pdgui->pd connection. I think one way would be to metro-out the filenames one-by-one? Or store them in a temporary file to be read into a [textfile]?
Seems like it is a hard time without a [folder] clone...
Krzysztof
hi tom,
try getting them one-by-one (perhaps, automate with a counter). In the scriptlet, change ".(set res.)" to ".(lindex $res $3.)" and drive that by [pack s s 0].
In essence, using tot to get directory listing is like taking a paraglider to visit a shop next street...
sztof
tom wrote:
I wanted to work a bit on directory listing with TOT because I use WINXP. I built this patch, but it crashes often and relies on too many
...
this is a bit cryptic, but hopefully works:
query set dir [tk_chooseDirectory] .: if .($dir != "" && ![catch .(glob [file join $dir *.txt].) res].) .(set res.)
Send this to a [tot .] -> [route bang] and read from the right outlet of the route.
The trickier problem is, how to deal with large lists of filenames -- there is a limit imposed by the pdgui->pd connection. I think one way would be to metro-out the filenames one-by-one? Or store them in a temporary file to be read into a [textfile]?
Seems like it is a hard time without a [folder] clone...
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Krzysztof Czaja -
tom