Ok the problem is simple: tcl accepts only path separated with ‘/‘ in windows but sys_bashfilename doesn’t convert the (adequately) created windows separator. So I’ll do a character substitutor.
Objvously the code is free and online so people can have a look or I can post here if that helps > On 23 Jun 2022, at 14:48, Christof Ressi <i...@christofressi.com> wrote: > > Generally, Pd only uses forward slashes as file path seperators. You can use > sys_bashfilename() on the path generated by tempnam(). > > On 23.06.2022 15:36, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay wrote: >> Hello >> >> In an external I use the superb tmpnam(x) to generate a temp file path to >> use and delete. All is good then… for MacOS and Linux that is! In Windows, >> the code in C does create a file but when I try to pass it to TCL to open >> there, like in the amazing ELSE’s pic, I can’t - the inverted backslash are >> deleted. I tried also, like in else, using open_canvas to no avail. >> >> Now I tried to use on windows the ELSE’s pic to troubleshoot and it seems I >> have 2 problems: >> >> #1: >> >> - PIC will accept the file I create when it is on the Documents folder, but >> not the exact same file in the temp folder created by tmpnam. So this will >> work: >> open C:/Users/pa/Documents/tmp.0.8eDtGO >> >> But not this: >> open C:/Users/pa/appData/Local/tmp.0.8eDtGO >> >> === >> >> #2 >> >> - PIC will only accept with straight slashes / >> >> C:\Users\pa\Documents\tmp.0.8eDtGO >> >> Won’t work but >> >> C:/Users/pa/Documents/tmp.0.8eDtGO’ >> >> will >> >> === >> >> So I wonder if there are pearls of wisdom on temp file generation for cross >> OS compile. At the moment, if I use the PIC hack of going through >> canvas_open I get a ‘void’ name, and if I don’t I get errors due to the >> backslash not being digested by TCL (it seems - the error is as above) >> >> p >> >> Ps Alexandre, without you and your code, this object would not exist, so >> 39402940923 thanks! >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
