Hello.

I know only far too little about coding to be able to create this myself, however, intuition tells me it isn't the grandest task. but I have two complaints about [openpanel].

1. I would LOVE to be able to set a message so that when you bang the openpanel and a panel indeed opens, for it to have a user defined message like "locate snare sample..." would be so wicked when using openpanel with loadbang or having many openpanels in one project.

2 The ability to select directories. For when selecting a playlist of files. I can keep my playlists organised into subdirectories. I found it very difficult (in fact impossible) to piece together a complex string of list objects to be able to subtract from symbol the last directory of the file I had chosen, in order to simulate the effect of choosing directory.

Many thanks.

Who should I go to about this?

Hi arif,

These are great ideas, especially the second (IMHO). I think i'll integrate'em into my Browser abstraction
(http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-2862-browser-niceties) if you permit.

[edit]
Now, to answer your question, you may be able to do this by using [splitfilename] (I think it's from zexy)
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yeah, i attempted to make a work around with splitfilename, but it only splits if you select a .pd file. so I had to create a dummy PD file in every directory I'm likely to choose, and select that dummy file. still then, I couldn't find away to remove the word 'symbol' from the beginning of the message.

by the way, weng, with the power vested in me (and you, and everyone else) by the open source community. you are of course permitted, nay, encouraged, to do anything to anything!

Do you mean something like this?

Edit: or maybe [folderpanel] will work. You can use [symbol2list] to get rid of the symbol selector, if you need to.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/openpanel2dir.mmb.pd

sweet!

Thanks maelstorm. I'm wondering how you and others have become so aquainted with the vast list objects. Also, d'ya reckon this sort of manipulation is far more intuitive in SuperCollider?

I've actually been beginning to understand the usefulness of list processing just by browsing/dissecting Frank Barknecht's excellent list-abs library. Most of the time it has to do with wanting to do something like string manipulation (which is sorely lacking in Pd) and just looking through the library for something that does what I want in combination with [list2symbol]/[symbol2list]. In fact, dealing with filenames is what got me started with it!

As for SuperCollider, I've never used it. But it wouldn't surprise me if it's better at list processing than Pd, as it is more closely related to standard programming languages. I can tell you from using Csound, though, that text-based coding is definitely less intuitive than Pd's graphical approach, so there's some trade-off there.

thanks man.

People keep bugging me to move over to the dark side (super collider) blah blah blah about better sound quality (I think they're making some kind of reference to the block size).

GUI Implimentation and interfaces are certainly way better, but what good is a shiny interface if you can't get your creative gumption into the engine behind it!?