I was wondering if somebody has created a patch to get the openpanel object to escape absolute paths in unix.

I am getting a weird error when I try to open a file with spaces or characters that need escaping , ie '-' in them.

For example: if you want to open a file named "01 temp - my song.wav" you would have to enter "01\ temp\ \- my\ song.wav". But if you try and enter that into a read message you'll get an error like "keycode 92: dropped" .

Similarly, if you use openpanel to select the same file, it will return /pathto/ 01 temp - my song.wav, not the escaped version.

So I guess my question is, short of renaming my entire sound file collection...

How do I open these files?????

renaming files to have no spaces anywhere in the pathname/filename is the "recommended" way to work with pd, unfortunately. This is a bad bug in Pd, it can handle symbols with spaces internally (as [openpanel] shows), but there's no way to manually enter them in Pd (which is missing some input/output filters to handle it correctly).

one attempt at a "solution" is to have a [textfile] with all your soundfiles in, with spaces included and not escaped so Pd will split it into separate symbols/floats, then use [list2symbol], but that won't handle multiple spaces next to each other and worse all numbers will be reformatted - your example 01 would reappear as 1

So, renaming seems to be the only way, until Pd is fixed, and Miller doesn't seem to care about this issue at all (it's fixed in DesireData, for example).

thank you claudius....

by the way your 4d cube and haskell extensions were awesome at last years PD-con

Much Respect......