davidestevens

The app I'm working on saves all project related files in a set of nested folders:

So when I create/save/load a project, the app needs the name of the containing project folder in order to figure out where to put stuff or load it from.

I've got most of it working using [opendialog] and so on, but parts of it are still not working properly, and the whole thing would be _much easier if there was a folder version of strippath. Ie I open a file dialogue, select a folder and say "here's the default filepath".

I seem to remember someone from c74 saying such an object (or a modified version of strippath) was on the way. Any news? Does anyone have a sure fire way of achieving the same result?

And this needs to work on any Mac that the app is run on.

The app I'm working on saves all project related files in a set of nested folders:
/projectname/presets
/projectname/sequences
/projectname/sounds

So when I create/save/load a project, the app needs the name of the containing project folder in order to figure out where to put stuff or load it from.
I've got most of it working using [opendialog] and so on, but parts of it are still not working properly, and the whole thing would be _much easier if there was a folder version of strippath. Ie I open a file dialogue, select a folder and say "here's the default filepath".
I seem to remember someone from c74 saying such an object (or a modified version of strippath) was on the way. Any news? Does anyone have a sure fire way of achieving the same result?

getting-a-folder-name-using-strippath

Found a solution using [atoi] and [zl sub] to find the position of the last"/" in the path, and then using [strcut] (jasch objects) to split the path at the right point. That seems to be working in the core patch - I'll have to test it in the full patch on another machine.

It would still be good to be able to define a path to a specific folder with [strippath] - and I'd also still be interested in any other solutions people have come up with relating to filepaths on machines other than the one the app is created on.

So when you send a file path message into strippath, it treats the item on the end (after the last /) as the name of a file, and outputs that, yes? That's a bit neater than my solution

Is that's what's inside 110.folderstrippath?

I looked for the 110. package on maxobjects.com, but it doesn't seem to be there ...

i dont have max here now, but it is a very simple solution:

sio all you need to do it cutr of the last letter (":") and the strippath object

a file string ends with
abc
but a folder ends with
abc:

sio all you need to do it cutr of the last letter (":") and the strippath object
will process folders like files.


Where do you learn stuff like that? it's little things like that that would be really good to know but - afaik - are not covered in the Max docs (at least they weren't the last time I read them all the way through :-) ) I suspect that it's probably basic programming knowledge (?)

It would be really useful if someone put together a "programming concepts" tutorial for maxers who haven't come up through C or Java or whatever (Python? Fortran??!!). There are a few things like file paths that I've managed to avoid all these years, because I haven't needed them - but now that my patches are getting use on other machines, I'm having to figure out a bunch of stuff that's probably very obvious to the hard core coders out there!

Where do you learn stuff like that? it's little things like that that would be really good to know but - afaik - are not covered in the Max docs (at least they weren't the last time I read them all the way through :-) )  I suspect that it's probably basic  programming knowledge (?)
It would be really useful if someone put together a "programming concepts" tutorial for maxers who haven't come up through C or Java or whatever (Python? Fortran??!!). There are a few things like file paths that I've managed to avoid all these years, because I haven't needed them - but now that my patches are getting use on other machines, I'm having to figure out a bunch of stuff that's probably very obvious to the hard core coders out there!
Any takers?


basic programing knowledge? no, not at all ... it is usually trial and error, when

you (or i in that case) really really need something you will always find a way.

what seems to be essential is that you always _do something:

you dont come closer to the solution by _thinking, only by _patching ...

and always use visual control ... with everything about messages, paths or strings

i think i needed it at first when dropping folders onto [dropfile] in order to

load all samples in it... i noticed that folders are stripped to "" (nothing) because

strippath couldnt know that this is the last folder.^^

basic programing knowledge? no, not at all ... it is usually trial and error, when
you (or i in that case) really really need something you will always find a way.

what seems to be essential is that you always _do something:
you dont come closer to the solution by _thinking, only by _patching ...
patch patch patch ...
and always use visual control ... with everything about messages, paths or strings
[print] and [printit] are duty ... 

i think i needed it at first when dropping folders onto [dropfile] in order to
load all samples in it... i noticed that folders are stripped to "" (nothing) because
strippath couldnt know that this is the last folder.^^

Indeed! And in fact I did find an only slightly less elegant way of achieving the same end - I looked for the final "/" in the string and cut everything before that. Using strippath as you suggested is cool though - let's hope it's not a mistake which gets fixed!! :-)

Indeed! And in fact I did find an only slightly less elegant way of achieving the same end  - I looked for the final "/" in the string and cut everything before that. Using strippath as you suggested is cool though - let's hope it's not a mistake which gets fixed!! :-)


Getting a folder name using strippath?