Scott Fitzgerald

Using regexp, based on something Patrick Delges posted last year, I'm

finding the contents of a folder named "films" that resides in the

same directory as a standalone. The folder contents populate an

ubumenu as expected. What's not happening (that is expected) is for

the ubumenus dumpout to report the number of items in the folder

I imagine it's something obvious I'm missing, but I havent been able

to figure it out. Or am I misunderstanding the messgae?

I have an example of the application, patches and example files here :

Using regexp, based on something Patrick Delges posted last year, I'm
finding the contents of a folder named "films" that resides in the
same directory as a standalone.  The folder contents populate an
ubumenu as expected.  What's not happening (that is expected) is for
the ubumenus dumpout to report the number of items in the folder
through the "populate" message.

I imagine it's something obvious I'm missing, but I havent been able
to figure it out.  Or am I misunderstanding the messgae?

I have an example of the application, patches and example files here :
http://droolcup.com/ubuissue.zip.

ubumenu-question

This is a misunderstanding of how ubumenu's autopopulate feature 

works. If you use ubumenu to do your folder scanning, file gathering 

and so on, using the "prefix" message or the prefix field in the 

inspector, then autopopulate is relevant, and any files found in the 

"prefix" folder will be reported from the dumpout, preceded by the 

word "prefix". The way you're using it, you just want to send the 

message "count" to ubumenu, once you're finished with your appending 

However, I have never understood why people use the folder object AND 

the ubumenu object for managing folder contents. This is a good 

example of old habits dying hard. Here's your patch again, with 

"findmeshitsc" turned into a subpatch, and the folder object 

dismissed. Note that you had changed the prefix setting to "prefix" 

rather than "concatenate" -- for path stuff, concatenation is what 

Cleaner and works as desired, when built into a standalone.

This is a misunderstanding of how ubumenu's autopopulate feature  
works. If you use ubumenu to do your folder scanning, file gathering  
and so on, using the "prefix" message or the prefix field in the  
inspector, then autopopulate is relevant, and any files found in the  
"prefix" folder will be reported from the dumpout, preceded by the  
word "prefix". The way you're using it, you just want to send the  
message "count" to ubumenu, once you're finished with your appending  
stuff, or do what John suggested.

However, I have never understood why people use the folder object AND  
the ubumenu object for managing folder contents. This is a good  
example of old habits dying hard. Here's your patch again, with  
"findmeshitsc" turned into a subpatch, and the folder object  
dismissed. Note that you had changed the prefix setting to "prefix"  
rather than "concatenate" -- for path stuff, concatenation is what  
you want.

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