MOBIArts

In Max/MSP, I'm trying to build a collective that looks from a windows machine to a shared Mac directory to display graphic files. I can't seem to get the file path correct. In WinXP "My Network Places" the path is shown as \MACSERVERfolder

But Max won't let me have a "" in a message window, no matter what I do--it just removes that character. And I believe I need a message object in order to prepend the directory path to the file name. I autopopulate a umenu with path/filename as files are added to the Mac folder.

Any ideas? Do you think this is hopeless, and maybe I should ftp the files to the windows machine and have it find these files locally on the Windows machines? Or is there a path name I can use?

But Max won't let me have a "" in a message window, no matter what I do--it just removes that character. And I believe I need a message object in order to prepend the directory path to the file name. I autopopulate a umenu with path/filename as files are added to the Mac folder. 

Any ideas? Do you think this is hopeless, and maybe I should ftp the files to the windows machine and have it find these files locally on the Windows machines? Or is there a path name I can use? 

path-from-windowsxp-to-shared-macintosh-folder

MOBIArts wrote on Sun, 01 March 2009 01:36

But Max won't let me have a "" in a message window, no matter what I do--it just removes that character.

The backslash has a special meaning for the Max parser (and grep and about a thousand other text parsers on the planet). You have to escape the backslash character by preceding it with another backslash.

This gets complex, because your text may possibly be parsed by Max more than once, and each pass through the parser will remove one level of escaping. You may need to experiment to find the correct number of backslashes. And if you edit the message box again, Max may swallow your carefully placed backslashes.

I would try something like '\\MACSERVER\folder'. If that doesn't work, '\\\\MACSERVER\\folder'.

MOBIArts wrote on Sun, 01 March 2009 01:36But Max won't let me have a "" in a message window, no matter what I do--it just removes that character.

It will work. You just have to keep at it.


Path from WindowsXP to shared Macintosh folder