Cycling 74 » Topic: any way for a patcher to get it's file name? http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/any-way-for-a-patcher-to-get-its-file-name/feed Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:00:17 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.2.4 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/any-way-for-a-patcher-to-get-its-file-name/#post-54074 <![CDATA[any way for a patcher to get it's file name?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/any-way-for-a-patcher-to-get-its-file-name/#post-54074 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:33:00 +0000 CowboyTakeTwo need some kinda message that contains the file name of the patcher. thanks.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/any-way-for-a-patcher-to-get-its-file-name/#post-194609 <![CDATA[Re: any way for a patcher to get it's file name?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/any-way-for-a-patcher-to-get-its-file-name/#post-194609 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 23:06:40 +0000 Chris Muir I don’t think that there is with simple Max objects. There probably is with scripting though.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/any-way-for-a-patcher-to-get-its-file-name/#post-194610 <![CDATA[Re: any way for a patcher to get it's file name?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/any-way-for-a-patcher-to-get-its-file-name/#post-194610 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:24:07 +0000 Trond Lossius Check out the documentation for thispatcher.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/any-way-for-a-patcher-to-get-its-file-name/#post-194611 <![CDATA[Re: any way for a patcher to get it's file name?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/any-way-for-a-patcher-to-get-its-file-name/#post-194611 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:59:53 +0000 Chris Muir Can you actually get the file name with thispatcher? I thought you could only get the path.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/any-way-for-a-patcher-to-get-its-file-name/#post-194612 <![CDATA[Re: any way for a patcher to get it's file name?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/any-way-for-a-patcher-to-get-its-file-name/#post-194612 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 10:19:36 +0000 kthozoid with javascript. save the patcher with some name and then bang the loadbang:

– Pasted Max Patch, click to expand. –
]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/any-way-for-a-patcher-to-get-its-file-name/#post-194613 <![CDATA[Re: any way for a patcher to get it's file name?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/any-way-for-a-patcher-to-get-its-file-name/#post-194613 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:46:04 +0000 Chris Muir @kthozoid – you need to include the text for namey.js

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/any-way-for-a-patcher-to-get-its-file-name/#post-194614 <![CDATA[Re: any way for a patcher to get it's file name?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/any-way-for-a-patcher-to-get-its-file-name/#post-194614 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:36:05 +0000 kthozoid apologies. here it is (i got it from someone else here somewhere…)

autowatch = 1;

function bang()
{
outlet(0, getPath(patcher, ‘/’ + this.patcher.name));
}

function getPath(p, path)
{
if(p.parentpatcher)
{
path = “/” + p.parentpatcher.name + path;
return getPath(p.parentpatcher, path);
}
else return path;
}

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/any-way-for-a-patcher-to-get-its-file-name/#post-194615 <![CDATA[Re: any way for a patcher to get it's file name?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/any-way-for-a-patcher-to-get-its-file-name/#post-194615 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 20:45:47 +0000 CowboyTakeTwo thanks! this forum is magic. so is max.

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