ubumenu question
Hi all,
Sorry if you got this earlier.
Using regexp, based on something Patrick Delges posted last year, I'm
finding the contents of a folder named "films" that resides in the
same directory as a standalone. The folder contents populate an
ubumenu as expected. What's not happening (that is expected) is for
the ubumenus dumpout to report the number of items in the folder
through the "populate" message.
I imagine it's something obvious I'm missing, but I havent been able
to figure it out. Or am I misunderstanding the messgae?
I have an example of the application, patches and example files here :
http://droolcup.com/ubuissue.zip.
TIA,
~scott
This is a misunderstanding of how ubumenu's autopopulate feature
works. If you use ubumenu to do your folder scanning, file gathering
and so on, using the "prefix" message or the prefix field in the
inspector, then autopopulate is relevant, and any files found in the
"prefix" folder will be reported from the dumpout, preceded by the
word "prefix". The way you're using it, you just want to send the
message "count" to ubumenu, once you're finished with your appending
stuff, or do what John suggested.
However, I have never understood why people use the folder object AND
the ubumenu object for managing folder contents. This is a good
example of old habits dying hard. Here's your patch again, with
"findmeshitsc" turned into a subpatch, and the folder object
dismissed. Note that you had changed the prefix setting to "prefix"
rather than "concatenate" -- for path stuff, concatenation is what
you want.
Cleaner and works as desired, when built into a standalone.
jb