Thanks Antoine, using canvas_open has fixed my issues and opening from sub-dirs is working properly as well now.
iain On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 8:55 AM Iain Duncan <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Antoine, re my last point: if the norm is that it should, then > that's what I'll do. And is why I asked, thanks! > > iain > > On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 8:44 AM Antoine Rousseau <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> the functions "canvas_open()" and "canvas_makefilename()" can do all this >> for you, in the same way as other data files (texts, arrays, wavs...) are >> opened. >> >> - do *not* traverse through all directories on the Pd search paths >>> >> >> why not? Is it a problem if it finds "scm/foo.scm" somewhere else? I say >> that because "canvas_open()" and "canvas_makefilename()" WILL traverse Pd >> search paths... >> >> >> Antoine >> >> >> >> Le ven. 8 oct. 2021 à 17:01, Iain Duncan <[email protected]> a >> écrit : >> >>> Hi folks, I want to solicit opinions from the broader Pd dev community >>> before figuring out how to fix this bug report from Alex: >>> https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-pd/issues/15 >>> >>> His point was that a relative path didn't do what he expected, situation >>> - an s4pd object created as "sp4d scm/my-file.scm" >>> >>> So this is what I think should happen for file searching, but will >>> change my mind if it is not in accordance with what users would expect. The >>> handling rules will be the same whether from a a "read {file}" message or >>> an arg to the object: >>> >>> Proposed Rules: >>> - absolute paths - opened >>> - single file name paths: >>> - first look in the canvas directory >>> - then search all Pd paths >>> - relative path names (i.e. "s4pd scm/foo.scm"): >>> - search in the canvas directory >>> - do *not* traverse through all directories on the Pd search paths >>> >>> Does that sound right? Or would the expectation be that it would search >>> for scm/foo.js on all the search paths? >>> >>> Related, should it know how to do the right thing to convert unix style >>> paths on windows? >>> >>> Please feel free to comment here or on the github ticket. >>> >>> thanks >>> iain >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pd-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev >>> >>
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