Re: [PD] [openpanel]/[savepanel] directory, [cd]

2008-05-29 Thread zmoelnig
Quoting Rich E [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Which brought me to another question; is there any way currently to do a 'cd' or 'pwd' in pd? I tried: [pwd ( | [shell] but this has the same problem of openpanel and savepaned; it gives you the path that pd was opened from. seems to be what i would

Re: [PD] [openpanel]/[savepanel] directory, [cd]

2008-05-29 Thread Steffen Juul
On 29/05/2008, at 4.09, Rich E wrote: Which brought me to another question; is there any way currently to do a 'cd' or 'pwd' in pd? Since your already on the external path you could use [getdir] from ggee. I tried: [pwd ( | [shell] but this has the same problem of openpanel and

Re: [PD] [openpanel]/[savepanel] directory, [cd]

2008-05-29 Thread Rich E
it does and it has been discussed multiple times on this list: sending a command to the [shell] will start a new process (shell), run the command and quit. like it should be, child processes do not modify parent processes and siblings. Ah. This makes sense. i am not sure what you would

Re: [PD] [openpanel]/[savepanel] directory, [cd]

2008-05-29 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 23:57 -0700, Rich E wrote: it does and it has been discussed multiple times on this list: sending a command to the [shell] will start a new process (shell), run the command and quit. like it should be, child

Re: [PD] [openpanel]/[savepanel] directory, [cd]

2008-05-29 Thread hard off
i agree with roman, but as was mentioned before, the [getdir] external is good if you need to find the directory of the current patch. ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Re: [PD] [openpanel]/[savepanel] directory, [cd]

2008-05-29 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On May 29, 2008, at 10:04 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote: On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 23:57 -0700, Rich E wrote: it does and it has been discussed multiple times on this list: sending a command to the [shell] will start a new process (shell), run the command and

Re: [PD] [openpanel]/[savepanel] directory, [cd]

2008-05-29 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: On a related note, for this release, I made Save As default to the Home folder (~/), what do people think about that? i would prefer it to be the directory where the original patch lives in. i hardly ever put any patches into my home directory (apart from

Re: [PD] [openpanel]/[savepanel] directory, [cd]

2008-05-29 Thread hard off
On a related note, for this release, I made Save As default to the Home folder (~/), what do people think about that? sounds good to me. ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Re: [PD] [openpanel]/[savepanel] directory, [cd]

2008-05-29 Thread Vincent Rioux
IOhannes m zmoelnig a écrit : Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: On a related note, for this release, I made Save As default to the Home folder (~/), what do people think about that? i would prefer it to be the directory where the original patch lives in. i hardly ever put any patches

[PD] [openpanel]/[savepanel] directory, [cd]

2008-05-28 Thread Rich E
Hi all, I noticed the nice, new feature in [openpanel] and [savepanel] to specify a directory to open in. This saves much, much time navigating to the right directory. But it seems to only work if you specify the full path or the directly lays in the relative path of where pd was opened from