Get patch file name [Sharing will follow]

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Miguel

Hi all,

I'm working on a large patch that loads a lot of other patches in a bpatcher. It is a kind of functional powerpoint substitute where instead of using MS PP for my slides I load different patchers and can execute stuff.

Each slide is a different patch and I have a presentation designer where I just drop the slides I will use in the desired order. This takes the names of the patches to keep track of current and next slides. At the moment each slide sends its filename when I hit next button. It works well but I need to manually change this each time I add a new slide.

My question is if there is a way to query the name of the file from within the patch itself so it tells me what is its name. Thus avoiding having to manually enter it each time I add or change the name of a slide.

I looked at [thispatcher] but I can only get whether or not it has a title but not the actual name of the loaded patcher.

Is there any message I can send to [thispatcher] or any other object to help me with this?

I am planning to release it once I get it to be stable enough

Thanks in advance

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kennethstewart

I haven't figured out how to query the filename of the open patcher, but once you do figure out how to do that here are a couple of [rexexp]s I use to extract the filename of a file that I regularly use with [opendialog] or [dropfile].

Best,

KS

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EMV

By sending "path" to thispatcher, you get the path where the patcher is saved.

I did the filename thing in javascript at work recently, which I'll post on monday when I have access to my work computer again.

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spectro

The example file "patchdescribe-example" in the directory: "examples/javascript/patcher-scripting" has a .js based example of the patcher outputting its name (among other things).

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Miguel

Spectro you da man!

This works perfect, although for some reason it outputs the patcher name over 20 times with a single bang. Already fixed it but it is weird.

Thanks lads, I will try to release my patch as soon as I can.

- Miguel

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EMV

Ah yeah, that's probably where I got my js version from too :)