Matthew Aidekman

The included code for bringing up a file chooser appears to crash max unless housed in a ...

...type of deally. Unfortunately it seems that if you house it in a runnable, anything it reads (that is the point of a file chooser) can't be shared with the rest of the program since it's on a different thread.

Has anyone else successfully read a file selected by a filechooser into their mxj?

        String initialPath = ".";

        String selectedPathname = null;

        JFileChooser openDialog = new JFileChooser();

        openDialog.setSelectedFile( new File(initialPath) );

        int openResult = openDialog.showOpenDialog(null);

        if(openResult == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION)

            selectedPathname = openDialog.getSelectedFile().getPath();

            System.out.println(selectedPathname);

...type of deally.  Unfortunately it seems that if you house it in a runnable, anything it reads (that is the point of a file chooser) can't be shared with the rest of the program since it's on a different thread.

		String initialPath = ".";
		String selectedPathname = null;
		JFileChooser openDialog = new JFileChooser();
		openDialog.setSelectedFile( new File(initialPath) );
		int openResult = openDialog.showOpenDialog(null);

		if(openResult == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION)
		{
			selectedPathname = openDialog.getSelectedFile().getPath();
			System.out.println(selectedPathname);
		}


open-dialog-is-worthless

I ran into the same difficulty, but then I noticed that various 

filedialogs are included as part of the MaxSystem class (maybe the 

This code sets up a [loadbuf] message, with or without an additional 

filename as part of the message. It reads the file into an internal 

char [] cbuf = new char[(int)ff.length()];

error("could not load file: " + lispfname);

On Feb 26, 2008, at 10:37 PM, Matthew Aidekman wrote:

> The included code for bringing up a file chooser appears to crash 

> ...type of deally. Unfortunately it seems that if you house it in 

> a runnable, anything it reads (that is the point of a file chooser) 

> can't be shared with the rest of the program since it's on a 

> Has anyone else successfully read a file selected by a filechooser 

>         String initialPath = ".";

>         String selectedPathname = null;

>         JFileChooser openDialog = new JFileChooser();

>         openDialog.setSelectedFile( new File(initialPath) );

>         int openResult = openDialog.showOpenDialog(null);

>         if(openResult == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION)

>             selectedPathname = openDialog.getSelectedFile().getPath();

>             System.out.println(selectedPathname);

I ran into the same difficulty, but then I noticed that various  
filedialogs are included as part of the MaxSystem class (maybe the  
Runnable() scoping is why).

This code sets up a [loadbuf] message, with or without an additional  
filename as part of the message.  It reads the file into an internal  
buffer "lispbuf":

    public void loadbuf(String lf) {
       if (lf.length() == 0)
          lispfname = MaxSystem.openDialog();
       else lispfname = lf;

       if (lispfname != null) {
          try {
             File ff = new File(lispfname);
             FileReader fr = new FileReader(ff);
             char [] cbuf = new char[(int)ff.length()];
             fr.read(cbuf);
             lispbuf = new String(cbuf);
          } catch (IOException o) {
             error("could not load file: " + lispfname);
          }
       }
    }

>
> The included code for bringing up a file chooser appears to crash  
> max unless housed in a ...
>
> new Runnable(){but my stuff here}
>
> ...type of deally.  Unfortunately it seems that if you house it in  
> a runnable, anything it reads (that is the point of a file chooser)  
> can't be shared with the rest of the program since it's on a  
> different thread.
>
> Has anyone else successfully read a file selected by a filechooser  
> into their mxj?
>
>
>
>
>
> 		String initialPath = ".";
> 		String selectedPathname = null;
> 		JFileChooser openDialog = new JFileChooser();
> 		openDialog.setSelectedFile( new File(initialPath) );
> 		int openResult = openDialog.showOpenDialog(null);
>
> 		if(openResult == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION)
> 		{
> 			selectedPathname = openDialog.getSelectedFile().getPath();
> 			System.out.println(selectedPathname);
> 		}


i seem to remember java.awt.Dialog being better behaved than JDialog 

On Feb 26, 2008, at 19:37 PM, Matthew Aidekman wrote:

i seem to remember java.awt.Dialog being better  behaved than JDialog  
within max.
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Open Dialog is worthless