Never done that before, excuse my idiocy and tell me how! Thanx!
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at>wrote: > On 02/05/2013 04:30 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 19:58 +0100, Òscar Martínez Carmona wrote: > >> hey, still having problems with that, by now I'm doing it with the > >> absolute filepath... maybe the solution it'll be making the main > >> applicattion finding out the f*cking path and sending the whole thing > >> to pd via OSC, or maybe trying it another day! > > > > If I am not mistaken, it hasn't been mentioned yet (though IOhannes > > assumed it very early) in this thread that [oggread~ ] oddly reads > > relative to Pd's start location (unlike many other classes like > > [textfile] or [readsf~ ] which read relative to the patch's location). > > > > IMHO, this makes it very difficult for a patch writer to use relative > > paths as the patch doesn't have any notion of where Pd was started from. > > I consider the whole idea of reading relative to Pd's start location > > flawed. A similar case is the 'open patch.pd path' message to [s pd]. > > Also this one reads relative to Pd's start location. However, > > considering that it was implemented this way, because it probably > > originates from the '-open' commandline flag, where it makes sense to > > use a path relative to the current working directory for loading a > > patch, this one is excused. > > > > For you, this means if your OSC application knows where Pd was started > > from, you need to make it use a path relative to that location. > > Otherwise you you're left with using absolute paths. When dealing with > > objects like [oggread~], I'd go for absolute paths, it's just seems > > safer and saner to deal with. > > > > (or someone fixes [oggread~ ], which I even wouldn't consider to break > > backwards compatibility as the current implementation doesn't really > > allow to use relativ paths in meaningful way) > > > > Roman > > I agree, relative should be relative to the patch. Please file a bug > report on > that. > > .hc > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > -- Òscar Martínez Carmona
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