Perfect! That one's much more comprehensible for my less-than-stellar C chops. :-)
thanks! On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 3:36 PM Miller Puckette <[email protected]> wrote: > Exactly. > > I now see that there's a better example in the binbuf_read_via_canvas() > function in m_binbuf.c > > cheers > M > > On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 03:31:17PM -0700, Iain Duncan wrote: > > Ah got it, presumably I get what I'm looking for in char *dirresult? > > > > assumption taken from: > > EXTERN int open_via_path(const char *dir, const char *name, const char > *ext, > > char *dirresult, char **nameresult, unsigned int size, int bin); > > > > thanks again! > > > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 3:28 PM Miller Puckette <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Yeah... open_via_path and scoop up the full path it reports back - then > > > close the file and let s7 reopen it :) > > > > > > M > > > On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 03:26:35PM -0700, Iain Duncan wrote: > > > > Thanks Miller. Looking at that example, this seems to be a way to > open > > > and > > > > read in the whole file into C, which I could do, but the path of > least > > > > resistance for me so far has been to pass the actual loading to s7. > Is > > > > there a way to just get the full path for a file found from the Pd > > > > filepath? (if not, I suppose I'll read the file in and the > eval_string on > > > > it or something...) > > > > > > > > thanks! > > > > iain > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 3:13 PM Miller Puckette <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > open_via_path() should do it. See for instance open_soundfile() in > > > > > d_soundfile.c > > > > > > > > > > cheers > > > > > M > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 02:57:16PM -0700, Iain Duncan wrote: > > > > > > Hi folks, I tried to google this, but of course am swamped with > > > results > > > > > on > > > > > > how to load things in the patcher instead of what I'm looking > for. > > > Can > > > > > > anyone point me at how to use the filepath to load files in an > > > external? > > > > > In > > > > > > Max I have s4m find the fullpath for the bootstrap files and then > > > load > > > > > them > > > > > > up through s7s native load function with the fullpath. If anyone > has > > > an > > > > > > example of something similar for Pd, that would be lovely! > > > > > > > > > > > > thanks > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Pd-dev mailing list > > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lists.puredata.info_listinfo_pd-2Ddev&d=DwICAg&c=-35OiAkTchMrZOngvJPOeA&r=XprZV3Fxus2L1LCw80hE4Q&m=39U4MIEK2DpJZblMb2hW4LrL86NA-Fm7lh9jTc1PtDw&s=uthX9eWCbvFepVl85UPukc4ORK0FbfTxuf-LSSYwmD0&e= > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > -- >
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