Hi everyone !

i'd like to play a sound file in pd-vanilla (recent download) in xp, to apply my patch to it. The \ (antislash) character is always discarded, including in the 'file paths' window. same inside a patch when using 'open'. What's the trick please ?
Thank you!

Just use forward slash /. Pd pretends it's not on Windows.

Hello Maelstrom !

i tried again what you said and it doesn't work. The documentation says that the \ and [ etc symbols are removed from the GUI : i got the message
"keycode 92: dropped"
but the documentation doesn't explain what xp users should do to play a file like
C:\music\Artist\Track_99.wav (where an empty space symbols seems to be unwanted)

Another unclear parameter is the meaning of ../ , does it refer to /pd/smthg only or also to any chosen path in the file->path menu ?

i believe that M. Pucket implemented this character removal to avoided troubles on linux, but we need to disable this option for xp. i didn't find how to do it and don't know how to reach him. Help !

Try this:

[bng]
|
[openpanel]
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[print]

You will see that all Windows style backslashes (\) are converted to forward slashes (/). This is what Pd uses in Windows, and it does work.

As for empty spaces, I assume you mean message boxes. Pd is a little fishy with this. If you type a symbol with a space in a message box, Pd treats it as a list. However, if you type something in [symbol\ or, say, output [openpanel] into [$1(, it will retain the space in the symbol. If you need it in the message box, the only work around I know of is to use [list2symbol] from zexy. As an example:

[C:/Program Files/somefile.wav(
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[list2symbol]
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[read $1 array1(
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[soundfiler]

Hope that clears some things up.