Load specific file??

Reply to Load specific file?? on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:24:06 GMT

jon2211 — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:24:06 GMT

i want pd to trigger an external file with a load bang.

what do you use instead of openpanel when you know what file yuo want to load automatically??

thanks

Reply to Load specific file?? on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:37:29 GMT

hardoff — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:37:29 GMT

all openpanel does is output a symbol of the filename.

a symbol object or message box will also do what you want.

ie, [/presets/gigantic-bass/404.txt(

Reply to Load specific file?? on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:53:17 GMT

jon2211 — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:53:17 GMT

hmmm,
itried making a text file called test.txt and placed it in the same folder as my patch.

made a message [test.txt] nothing happened
same for [open test.txt]

what might i be doing wrong?
Thanks

Reply to Load specific file?? on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:10:48 GMT

hardoff — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:10:48 GMT

you have to include the entire path to the file.

you can also use ./ to go from the directory your patch is in.

Reply to Load specific file?? on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:48:45 GMT

jon2211 — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:48:45 GMT

ok,
i see what you're doing. I phrased my question wrong I think.
I am trying to make a file launch outside of PD. i.e a text file opens in notepad or make a batch file/VBScript run rather than load it into PD as in a text file into an array.

Thanks

Reply to Load specific file?? on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:01:59 GMT

obiwannabe — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:01:59 GMT

Hmm, what do Windows users do in the absence of [shell]? Could you use PyExt to run a Python script on Windows?

Reply to Load specific file?? on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:31:33 GMT

jon2211 — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:31:33 GMT

so i decided to write an external for this. I tested this on windows only. in the zip file is the dll some example files to open and a pd patch to see how it works.

let me know if you think it could have better features

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/openfileExtern.zip

Reply to Load specific file?? on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:38:04 GMT

RolandT — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:38:04 GMT

On a slightly different tack (didt see where to start a new post), I want to make a file open by loadbang. It would be a .dll file for the vst object. Can't see how to do it...

Reply to Load specific file?? on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:30:10 GMT

jon2211 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:30:10 GMT

I assume you want to have the [vst~]object startup with specific vst instrumet. Use the dll name as a creation argument.

If vst is name Example.dll, and it has two ins and two outs:

[vst~ 2 2 example.dll]

The [openFile] I made basically is for launching other applications/files by calling a command window in the background and doing an open command.

see attached for code

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/openFile.c

Reply to Load specific file?? on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:45:11 GMT

RolandT — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:45:11 GMT

excellent, thank you.