Yes, the limit was in [openpanel 2]. Actually all three ways work fine with special characters ( [list-store], [text], and [list-drip] @oid, @ddw_music).

I copy the paths in Finder with alt-right click and paste it into the text object. Its a quick manoeuvre and I got the flexibility of the text object.

@ddw_music said:

Don't guess -- examine the data!

But one key here is that a list in Pd is not "space delimited."
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I hear you Thanks for this clear explanation, it helped a lot.

I saw your last post flash by and tried it out, worked fine. As does the version with list-drip.

But! Now I can not load more than 40 something elements. And my list is really close to 200 elements, and may grow.

Is there some kind of limit in the text object?

edit: for this project I am on Mac Pd0.53-2. I probably can find a terminal script to remove special characters, I do that already with blank spaces. Its annoying that OSX name screen recordings with special characters when you set your OS language to something else than English.

-This works but not if using special characters:

[pd stored-list] just contains a blank message box: [(

I understand that for this type of operation should use the text object (maybe it even accepts file names with blank spaces?). However text seems to require semi-colons as separators for a list. I guess that open panel 2 returns a list with return as separators? How could I set this up with text object?

How can I save a list that I have created with [openpanel 2] and [list store]?

[bng]
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[openpanel 2]
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[list store]

...I would like to store this output in the patch upon save.

If I edit the [list store] like this...

[list store /Users/me/my-videos/20230714_171857.mp4
/Users/me/my-videos/20230714_164304.mp4
/Users/me/my-videos/20230714_154610.mp4
/Users/me/my-videos/20230714_154522.mp4]

...I get the result I want in the patch but I want to use openpanel 2 instead of copy&paste.

Should I convert the output of [openpanel 2] to a message and then loadbang this message into list store upon load or what? I usually save values in patches by setting messages but something is lost in translation... [list store] does not seem to store anything with the patch.

:/

I have ran pd on a raspberry controlling it with VNC Viewer over wifi quite successfully. Since I keep editing the Pd project I need to have access to the GUI, but I would prefer run it headless on the rpi since that would free up quite a bit of cpu.

Could you run Pd's GUI on one computer (i.e. my laptop) and Pd audio process headless on another (i.e. the RaspberryPi)? That would be so neat.

I solved it by having looped interludes where I could adjust and look at the projection. It worked quite OK. A plus is that I was not distracted by the visuals when performing, so the setup made sense in this way too.

But will try some the methods mentioned here next time I perform with this setup. I really like the OF/Ofelia setup, had almost no crashes or oddities happening and I even wasn't that careful. And CPU pressure was quite low too.

@oid works fine once I initated it with [set 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0(. Seems like [insert( will aso init a list even if none is declared/set. Sweet, thanks!

@oid awesome, tried but [list-store51] does not accept [get n -1( either. cool if you could update [list-store51] it to work.

I was not aware that [list store] [insert( [delete( was a newer functions when I made this abs and I need to use it on a Raspberry Pi with custom OS with Pd 0.51.4 installed. Of course it would be better to upgrade Pd but I am not sure it is convenient. I am looking into it.

Any ideas on how I could rewrite this to work with Pd <0.52? I guess I could use prepend instead of insert, but how could I replace delete? If possible.

Is there a sensible way of having the Ofelia window shown both on a full screen projector/monitor and at the same time windowed on my laptop sharing space with Pd-gui controls? Im on Mac for this. I was hoping that osx had some built-in feature for this but I at least have not found it. Thanks.