nicnut

I am exporting a project to send to some other people to use and it includes some audio files and a umenu. I know there is a "media" folder in the Project folder. How can I format a message so that the umenu is loaded with the contents of that folder when the patch opens? I dropped a folder of the files I'm using into the media folder. What I am trying to achieve is that this folder will populate a umenu on any computer that the project is opened on.

I tried projectName.maxproj/media/folderNamewhereFilesAre and I got an error message.

When I do "prefix projectName.maxproj/media/folderNamewhereFilesAre " I don't get an error message but nothing happens.

I ultimately plan on saving this as an Application, so I hope it's a similar process for that.

Let me know if anyone has some insight into this. 

I am exporting a project to send to some other people to use and it includes some audio files and a umenu. I know there is a "media" folder in the Project folder. How can I format a message so that the umenu is loaded with the contents of that folder when the patch opens? I dropped a folder of the files I'm using into the media folder. What I am trying to achieve is that this folder will populate a umenu on any computer that the project is opened on. 

I tried projectName.maxproj/media/folderNamewhereFilesAre and I got an error message.
When I do "prefix projectName.maxproj/media/folderNamewhereFilesAre " I don't get an error message but nothing happens. 

I ultimately plan on saving this as an Application, so I hope it's a similar process for that. 

Let me know if anyone has some insight into this. 

Thank You. Nick

Hi, 
I am exporting a project to send to some other people to use and it includes some audio files and a umenu. I know there is a "media" fo

populate-umenu-for-a-project-or-application

I think the documentation for combine and folder should have you covered

https://docs.cycling74.com/max8/refpages/combine

https://docs.cycling74.com/max8/refpages/folder

https://docs.cycling74.com/max8/refpages/combine
https://docs.cycling74.com/max8/refpages/folder

What I ended up doing is saving this patch as a project. Then in the project window you can select what media to add to the project. Then I saved it as an application and I believe everything is in there. So far it's working. I think Cycling 74 developers did a good job to make this a pretty easy thing once you figure out how to do it.

Would you happen to have some links, screen grabs or snippets that demonstrate the workflow?

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