Dan Nigrin

I have been using David Zicarelli's excellent-but-unsupported 

"findfolder" external (OS X) to report on the path to the computer's 

main plugin folder (e.g. "Macintosh HD/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/"), 

and/or the user's plugin folder (e.g. "Macintosh 

I'm now trying to implement the same thing using *only* supported 

objects, and also not using any 3rd party externals either.

Is Javascript or Java the best/only way to do this? If so, has 

202 Hack / PC-1600 User / VSTi Host / OMS Convert / Jack OS X

I have been using David Zicarelli's excellent-but-unsupported 
"findfolder" external (OS X) to report on the path to the computer's 
main plugin folder (e.g. "Macintosh HD/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/"), 
and/or the user's plugin folder (e.g. "Macintosh 
HD/Users/dan/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/")

I'm now trying to implement the same thing using *only* supported 
objects, and also not using any 3rd party externals either.

Is Javascript or Java the best/only way to do this?  If so, has 
anyone done this already and can share?

thanks,
Dan
-- 
Dan Nigrin
Defective Records
202 Hack / PC-1600 User / VSTi Host / OMS Convert / Jack OS X
http://www.defectiverecords.com
http://www.jackosx.com


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On 8-May-2006, at 17:39, Dan Nigrin wrote:

> Is Javascript or Java the best/only way to do this? If so, has 

> anyone done this already and can share?

I recently did something like this in C. Sample code for traversing & 

searching folder trees abounds in the net.

You obviously don't want my object because it's "3rd party." If it's 

your own external, it ain't 3rd party, is it? If it is, I'm not sure 

why Java is any less so, but you're the one writing the "rules"-)

I 'spect you can do what you want either in Java or JScript.

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Interface Building for |home | chez nous|

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On 8-May-2006, at 17:39, Dan Nigrin wrote:
> Is Javascript or Java the best/only way to do this?  If so, has  
> anyone done this already and can share?

I recently did something like this in C. Sample code for traversing &  
searching folder trees abounds in the net.

You obviously don't want my object because it's "3rd party." If it's  
your own external, it ain't 3rd party, is it? If it is, I'm not sure  
why Java is any less so, but you're the one writing the "rules"-)

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Thanks Peter. It's not that I'm opposed to using 3rd party things, 

but in some cases I like to have no dependencies on anyone but 

Cycling, especially when doing code migrations to new platforms (e.g. 

So yes, if I built my own external, that wouldn't count. But since 

I'm not an external writer, looks like I'm headed to Java/Javascript.

Thanks Peter.  It's not that I'm opposed to using 3rd party things, 
but in some cases I like to have no dependencies on anyone but 
Cycling, especially when doing code migrations to new platforms (e.g. 
Windows, MacIntel, etc..).

So yes, if I built my own external, that wouldn't count.  But since 
I'm not an external writer, looks like I'm headed to Java/Javascript.

-- 
Dan Nigrin
Defective Records
202 Hack / PC-1600 User / VSTi Host / OMS Convert / Jack OS X
http://www.defectiverecords.com
http://www.jackosx.com


Check out Topher LaFata's page. He has an mxj object called

filebrowse that should give you an idea as to how to do a foler

https://cycling74.com/twiki/bin/view/Share/TopherLafata?t=200

Hi Dan,
Check out Topher LaFata's page.  He has an mxj object called
filebrowse that should give you an idea as to how to do a foler
search.

 https://cycling74.com/twiki/bin/view/Share/TopherLafata?t=200 6-04-27T17:23Z?rev=1.4

Thanks for the tip Wes - just had a look and hopefully will be able 

to extract the relevant bits out of Topher's work.

Thanks for the tip Wes - just had a look and hopefully will be able 
to extract the relevant bits out of Topher's work.

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