Hi, I'm trying to develop something with MobMuPlat, which uses libpd. It's hard to know what objects that can be used or not because it's not listed anywhere I can see but from trial and error I think it's somewhat close to vanilla 0.48. So no [file glob] or [pdcontrol], or externals...

Anyone have an idea of how to get the contents of a folder (the folder of the pd patch) as a list in vanilla 0.48?

if you are running windows, you could start a batch file first that creates a text file of the directory
e.g. dir2text.bat that uses the /b/a-d flags to strip the unwanted file data
this copies the *.wav file names from my desktop\loops folder to dir-list.txt in a folder dir-list on my desktop

dir /b /a-d C:\Users\David\Desktop\loops\*.wav > c:\Users\David\Desktop\dir-list\dirtext.txt
exit

then in pd

it just occurred to me that your project would be running on a phone or tablet is the pd file on a PC?

I managed to get a slider to write to a label but couldn't manage to fill a menu

@Balwyn said:

it just occurred to me that your project would be running on a phone or tablet is the pd file on a PC?

Yes, MobMuPlat runs on Android and iOS.

Interesting approach to make and fill a txt file with the folder contents (and you're right, it's the soundfiles I want ). I would need a command that works both on android and ios and for it to be triggered from the pd patch then.

Ah well, now I'm stumped, and I solved my menu issue (case sensitivity).
I would be pretty sure there would be a script that could fill the text file then start MobMuPlat filename, but I its out of my league

Thank you for your insights anyways - I will continue to look down this path!

This may be of no use whatsoever

I've just resurrected an old Lenovo Android tablet and reinstalled MobMuPlat then I installed 'Shell Terminal Emulator'
I copied my dir.mmp, dir.pd and dirtext.txt to the MobMuPlat folder
I then copied about six wav files to the music folder
Then ran Shell Terminal Emulator and entered after the prompt..

find /sdcard/music/ -type f >/sdcard/MobMuPlat/dirtext.txt

Then ran MobMuPlat dir.mmp
And yes! the menu had the filenames I copied

Plus all the files (about 150) in the other system folders in the Music folder - oops!

The filenames are preceded by the folder names however, eg /sdcard/music/drum.wav