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It's a new year and I'm finally following through on my goal to learn to write mxj externals.

For my first project, I'm attempting to translate a simple applet that run on the command line into an external. It takes two text files as arguments and parses them with different functions like this:

public static void main( String[] argv ) {

    char[] input = readInputFile( argv[0] );

    String[][] foo = readFooFile( argv[1] );

For some reason, I didn't find anything in the documentation about how to load files with the standard pop-up window as variables (like "read" in jit.qt.movie). Can someone please point me to something like the above code, but done the mxj way?

It's a new year and I'm finally following through on my goal to learn to write mxj externals.  

For my first project, I'm attempting to translate a simple applet that run on the command line into an external.  It takes two text files as arguments and parses them with different functions like this:

public static void main( String[] argv ) {
	char[] input = readInputFile( argv[0] );
	String[][] foo = readFooFile( argv[1] );
        runFoo(input, foo);
}

For some reason, I didn't find anything in the documentation about how to load files with the standard pop-up window as variables (like "read" in jit.qt.movie).  Can someone please point me to something like the above code, but done the mxj way?

loading-files-as-in-argv

On 3 janv. 09, at 21:17, Zach Gold wrote:

> It's a new year and I'm finally following through on my goal to 

> For my first project, I'm attempting to translate a simple applet 

> that run on the command line into an external. It takes two text 

> files as arguments and parses them with different functions like this:

> public static void main( String[] argv ) {

>     char[] input = readInputFile( argv[0] );

>     String[][] foo = readFooFile( argv[1] );

> For some reason, I didn't find anything in the documentation about 

> how to load files with the standard pop-up window as variables (like 

> "read" in jit.qt.movie). Can someone please point me to something 

> like the above code, but done the mxj way?

You can achieve that with MaxSystem.openDialog(). If you want an 

example, have a look to my ej.fplay which uses this technique.

> It's a new year and I'm finally following through on my goal to  
> learn to write mxj externals.
>
> For my first project, I'm attempting to translate a simple applet  
> that run on the command line into an external.  It takes two text  
> files as arguments and parses them with different functions like this:
>
> public static void main( String[] argv ) {
> 	char[] input = readInputFile( argv[0] );
> 	String[][] foo = readFooFile( argv[1] );
>        runFoo(input, foo);
> }
>
> For some reason, I didn't find anything in the documentation about  
> how to load files with the standard pop-up window as variables (like  
> "read" in jit.qt.movie).  Can someone please point me to something  
> like the above code, but done the mxj way?

You can achieve that with MaxSystem.openDialog(). If you want an  
example, have a look to my ej.fplay which uses this technique.

loading files as in argv