tracklist 1 0 0 0 (message->???) connection failed
tracklist 2 0 0 0 (message->???) connection failed
tracklist 3 0 0 0 (message->???) connection failed

Any hints for that?

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This is tangentially related, but do you know why Pd (extended, at least) is so slow in responding to mouse clicks when Apple dialog boxes are open? This has always been the case for me.

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Ron

I see that your patch doesn't work with Pd-vanilla. Is there a way to make it work using externals? (I guess that implies you'd have to code the externals in C.)

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R.

Anyway..... in "cart" the playlist window is cleared and re-populated as each folder is opened.
If you want to bang a message box you need to give each one a [receive] object and then build a patch to send bangs to those objects. That patch is easy using [random]. The track name will always display in "cart" already. The number of tracks can be known (already the tracklist populator stops when it has created the messages in tracklist).
So you need to add (using the populator) a receive object for each message, place it into "tracklist" and attach (connect) each one to its message.

Either you should do this.........
The populator creates the message, connects it to the [s trackplay] object, creates the [receive 1] object and connects it to the message........ and moves on.
Or this....... the populator runs as in cart, but you add a counter, and when it has finished (how do you know, do you just put a delay and hope) it builds the [receive objects and connects them.

I reckon the first is easier. [s trackplay is object 0 on the page and each message is 1-n for the connect message. You need to change the numbers for the connect messages.......
the populator will build..
[s trackplay] (this is object 0)
[message 1] (this is object 1)
connect object 1 to object 0
[receive 1] (this is object 2)
connect object 2 to object 1
[message 2] (this is object 3....... in "cart" it was object 2 but [receive 1 has been created first)
connect object 3 to object 0
[receive 2] (this is object 4)
connect object 4 to object 3
etc. and it will stop when no more names arrive.

You will need a counter though (don't forget to reset it when the next folder is loaded) so that random can have the right argument. [random x].

You can use the right outlet of [readsf~] to bang out the next number from [random] and start the next track..............another counter and a calculation (when tracks played == track count +1) load the next folder.......... etc.......
Have Fun!
David.

Now that you have understood it all........ here is the easy way to do it......
The patch tracklist_button.pd is called by the propagator for each track, and given two arguments........ the track name, and it's number in the list. It is what is called an "abstraction".
Now all you have to do is send your random number to "playit" using [s playit]
cart2.pd
David.

tracklist_button Track 01 Almost Like the Berlin Wall.aiff 1
... couldn't create
tracklist_button Track 02 Private Property No Trespassing.aiff 2
... couldn't create
tracklist_button Track 03 Steal the Common from the Goose.aiff 3
... couldn't create

I should probably mention that I actually don't want to see the list of sounds, though I guess that is fairly easy to control through the 'vis' command? I only want to see the currently played sound displayed. I'm going to upload here the patch of my own that I'm trying to integrate this with. You'll see it's built to load just one file for each of the five buttons, so what I"m trying to do is to change it to load folders, and to display the name of the currently playing file (triggered randomly with the first five number keys) just below the current symbol object. For simplicity's sake, I'll just ask the user to type in the folder name into the current symbol objects you see there.

slow_down.pd

slow_down_david.pd

[bang]
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[tof/folderpanel]
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{symbol]
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{makefilename %s/*.aif]
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[rand_file]

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My wife is now doing workshops with this patch in Bangalore. It seems it's working great in general, but there's one student who gets the error message you see in this screenshot. Any ideas what might be happening?

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