tommi

I need [playlist~] to load a dictionary previously exported by the [playlist~] itself, like "save" & "open", you know...

Since I was not able to find any information on how to do it and simply passing the dictionary to the [playlist~] does not seem to work at all, I tried to parse the [playlist~] generated Dict to extract just the filepaths and feed them back to [playlist~] via [prepend append].

I had quite a hard time at it because of the behaviour I tried to exemplify with the attached patcher.

Please load one file in [playlist~] and look at what is the detected type (= dictionary), then load more files and see how it becomes an array... while the "bracketing" inside the Dict object remains the same (!).

Or can you suggest a clean and easy way of doing what I wanted to do in the first place (reload a playlist)?

Howdy folks,
I need  [playlist~] to load a dictionary previously exported by the  [playlist~] itself, like "save" & "open", you know...
Since I was not able to find any information on how to do it and simply passing the dictionary to the  [playlist~]  does not seem to work at all, I tried to parse the  [playlist~] generated Dict to extract just the filepaths and feed them back to  [playlist~] via [prepend append].
I had quite a hard time at it because of the behaviour I tried to exemplify with the attached patcher.

Is this how it should be?
Or can you suggest a  clean and easy way of doing what I wanted to do in the first place (reload a playlist)?

Playlist~: Array or Dictionary... or Array (or Dictionary)?