relative search path for loading samples

Sorry for the old school format, but I had this lying around in Max 4 format. Place it in the patch and it should add your folder to the searchpath on loadbang…

Alex

#P window setfont "Sans Serif" 9.;
#P window linecount 1;
#N vpatcher 10 59 332 246;
#P window setfont "Sans Serif" 9.;
#P window linecount 1;
#P newex 23 71 49 196617 append 1;
#P newex 23 49 78 196617 prepend append;
#P newex 23 92 77 196617 filepath search;
#P newex 24 114 73 196617 loadmess path;
#N comlet From thispatcher Path;
#P inlet 23 29 15 0;
#N comlet To thispatcher;
#P outlet 24 136 15 0;
#P connect 1 0 4 0;
#P connect 4 0 5 0;
#P connect 5 0 3 0;
#P connect 2 0 0 0;
#P pop;
#P hidden newobj 332 77 75 196617 p Search_Path;
#N thispatcher;
#Q end;
#P hidden newobj 281 55 61 196617 thispatcher;
#P hidden fasten 1 0 0 0 337 98 278 98 278 51 286 51;
#P hidden connect 0 1 1 0;
#P window clipboard copycount 2;

try loadbanging a "path" message to [thispatcher], then you need to use [sprintf] to create the path (as a single symbol, so no spaces will mess it up… as a general rule, to avoid spaces messing things up like this, put quotes around things). There’s an example in the [sprintf] help file:

sprintf symout %s%s

where the first %s is the path as a single symbol, and the second %s is your filename. Then run this through [prepend open] and into your buffer~.

There’s also the adding a filepath option, but this works too.