On Die, 2013-03-19 at 16:59 -0400, me.grimm wrote: > I was just looking at romans old post: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04869.html > > did this ever get fixed? In the help->pd help browser->pd > msg->msg_and_pd->open_close.pd i see: > > "Sometimes you can get relative paths (./, ../, etc.) to work, but > usually not. I don't know why..." > > the example under it uses [getdir] > > there is no vanilla [getdir] right? and i was assuming the manual > example above was a vanilla example... > > IDK basically im trying to have a vanilla way to do [pd open $1 $2{ > and have $2 relative to where ever my patch is sitting. > > but maybe im easily missing the obvious something that was addressed > since romans 2007 post...
>From what I know, the situation is still the same. Many things in Pd are still relative to Pd's start location. The 'open' message to 'pd' is one of them. Also [openpanel] interprets relative paths relative to Pd's start location. There are quite a lot of externals with the same behavior, too. [moocow/readdir] just pops to my mind. >From a user's perspective, this is simply broken, as a patch hasn't any notion of Pd's start location. I wouldn't mind if all those cases would be changed to relative-to-patch. Roman _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
