Em ter, 15 de jan de 2019 às 13:56, Roman Haefeli <[email protected]> escreveu:
> On Tue, 2019-01-15 at 13:28 -0200, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote: > > > > > > Em ter, 15 de jan de 2019 às 12:30, Roman Haefeli <[email protected] > > > escreveu: > > > On Tue, 2019-01-15 at 13:35 +0000, Mario Buoninfante wrote: > > > > > > > Would it be possible to use something like the following > > > > > > > > [symbol ./( > > > > | > > > > | > > > > [openfolder] > > > > > > > > to open the dialog window in the current patch folder? > > > > > > > > This syntax works when you save or load files (ie with > > > [textfile]), > > > > but doesn't seem to work with [openpanel] and [savepanel]. > > > > > > The help file says that you can use [symbol <some path>( to open a > > > specific directory. However, when you give a relative path, it is > > > relative to Pd's start location, which is pretty useless. > > > > is it? cause it seems to me it's just not working at all! > > I can currently only test on Linux, but yes it works. However, when > banging [openpanel] initially, it doesn't open in Pd's start location, > but in its "Home" which happens to be ~/Documents/Pd in my version of > Pd (0.49.1). that's actually 0.49-0, right? 49.1 is only for mac > I don't know what the start location is on platforms where you double- > click an icon to launch the application. But you can easily figure that > out by sending [symbol .( to [openpanel]. Sending a "symbol ." here in the latest macOS and Pd opens the root of HD > From there, relative paths should work. I guess, they do so also on macOS > and on Windows once you > know where your starting point is. > So, a bang opens ~/Documents/Pd, but no relative paths work from there! So it seems like a bug for mac, and also, we want the behaviour to be relative to the patch's path, right? At least when sending it "symbol ./" What I was trying to say in my previous post is that relative paths > are pretty useless when they must be relative to this arbitrary > starting point, since the patch has no notion of that path. Most often > you want [openpanel] to show some directory relative to the main patch > of your project. For me, relative to patch would make much more sense. > I don't see any meaningful use case with the current implementation of > 'relative to Pd's start location'. > agreed
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