Create a list of files from dropping into a target...

Quote: grimepoch wrote on Sat, 14 July 2007 23:05
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> Wow, you all have been amazingly helpful!
>
> Okay, so now when I drag a file in, if its longer than a certain size it gets part of the song replaced with like #AF3984. Is there any way that I can keep the whole original name?
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heh, you are the only other person i know of who has complained about this problem (other than me). it's a weird os x limitation, you can search the forum for a good explanation somebody gave me. it doesn't happen on windows. my solution (which took me ages to get right) uses a combination of java and javascript. java for the display of the full file name, and javascript for communication with max.
i believe i had this working originally with the shell object instead of java, but then the shell object got itself broken and was just recently fixed.

max, javascript and java files posted below. i put the max file in a bpatcher with an argument. good luck.

***** save and compile as JShell.java *****
import com.cycling74.max.*;
import java.io.*;

public class JShell extends MaxObject {
    //private shell mShell;
    public JShell() {
        post("JShell: -ls");
        declareIO(1,1);
    }
    public void anything(String arg, Atom[] args)
    {
        if(arg.equals("ls")) {
            File file = new File(args[0].toString());
            if(file.exists())
            {
                String[] files = file.list();
                for(int i=0; i
                {
                    if(!files[i].startsWith("."))
                        outlet(0, files[i]);
                }                    
            }
            else
                post("Error: can't find file: " + args[0].toString());
        }
        else
        {
            post("Did not recognize command " + arg);
        }
    }     
}

**** save as folderiter.js *****
/*

simple example of iterating through the files in a folder

*/

outlets = 7;
setoutletassist(6,"folder path");
setoutletassist(5,"number of files in folder");
setoutletassist(4,"file size (in bytes)");
setoutletassist(3,"file type");
setoutletassist(2,"file extension");
setoutletassist(1,"modification date");
setoutletassist(0,"file name");

function get_folder_files(v)
{
    var loc_folder = new Folder(v);

    var count_files = -1;

    loc_folder.reset();    
    while (!loc_folder.end) {
        if ((loc_folder.filetype != "fold") && (loc_folder.extension != ".wvf")
            && (loc_folder.extension != ".jpg") && (loc_folder.extension != ".doc")
            && (loc_folder.extension != ".db") && (loc_folder.filename.length >= 1)) {
            var thefile = new File(loc_folder.pathname + "/" + loc_folder.filename);
            if (thefile.isopen) {
                outlet(4,thefile.eof);
                thefile.close();
            } else {
                outlet(4,0);
            }
            outlet(3,loc_folder.filetype);
            outlet(2,loc_folder.extension);
            outlet(1,loc_folder.moddate);
            outlet(0,loc_folder.filename);
            count_files += 1;
        }
        loc_folder.next();
    }
    outlet(5,count_files);
    loc_folder.close();        
}

function recursefolders(v)
{
    var f = new Folder(v);
    var count_files;

        count_files = -1;
        f.reset();
        while (!f.end) {
            if (f.filetype == "fold") {
                var foldername;
                // if path doesn't end with a slash add one
                if (f.pathname.charAt(f.pathname.length-1) != "/")
                    foldername = f.pathname + "/" + f.filename;
                else
                    foldername = f.pathname + f.filename
                recursefolders(foldername);
            } else {
                count_files++;
            }
            f.next();
        }
        if (count_files > 0) {
            outlet(6,f.pathname);
            outlet(5,f.count);
        }
    f.close();
}

**** save as whateva i do what i want ***