Getting files into a Option menu

[ivaho]

Hi,

I'am trying to get files from a directory into an Option Menu.

I want to select a file in the option menu and send it to a server.
The sending part is not a problem only the getting the files in the Option menu.

I've read the beginners manual and am able to get the files in a field but not into an Option menu.

Kind regards

[Klaus]

Hi ivaho,

welcome to the forum!

Here some great leraning resources:
http://www.runrev.com/developers/lesson ... nferences/

OK, what did you try so far to "get the files into an option menu"?
You could:
...
put the files into tFiles
set the text of btn "your option menu here" to tFiles
...
OR simply:
...
put tFiles into btn "your option menu here"
...

Is that what you mean?


Best

Klaus

[ivaho]

Hi Klaus,

Thanks for your reply.

[put tFiles into btn "your option menu here"] was the solution i was looking for, had no idea i could just put them into the button and the files would appear as choises.

I'am trying to write a simple program for playing files using a server(CasparCG)

Now i have the files in my Option Menu, i would like that the .mp4 or .mov extensions are not visible in the list.
I've read it somewhere on the forum here but cant find it any more.

After that i need to send the following command to the server.

write "play 1 (option menu choice) " & format("\r\n") to socket "localhost:5250"

the command for playing a file on the server onder a normal button is
write "play 1 amb" & format("\r\n") to socket "localhost:5250" where amb is the file on the server.

kind regards
Ivo

[kdjanz]

Since the list of files is just a list of lines of text, you can loop through them and trim the ends off each line in tFiles - before you put that text into your button menu. You can look up working with chunk data if you don't know how to do that - http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/4 ... -with-text - might be a good place to start.

Kelly

[Klaus]

Hi Ivo,

you can use the "filter" command!
...
put the files into tFiles

## "filter without" is our friend
filter tFiles without "*.mp4"
filter tFiles without "*.mov"
...

Done


Best

Klaus

[ivaho]

Hi klaus,

If i put

filter listFiles without "*.mp4"
put listFiles(currentFolder(), ) into button "Option Menu"

there are still files showing with .mp4 on the end.

And i think the filter works as that files with extention .mp4 will not be showing, but i want those files to be showing but without the .mp4 extennsion.

I need the files to be displayed without there extension.

[Klaus]

Hi Ivo,

well, it might be a good idea to FIRST get the files and THEN filter them
...
## I think this is your function that gets the files, right?
## Is the COMMA corect in the function call? -> listFiles(currentFolder(), ) ?
put listFiles(currentFolder(), ) into tFiles
filter tFiles without "*.mp4"
put tFiles into button "Option Menu"
...

Best

Klaus

[ivaho]

Hi Klaus,

Sorry for the late responce but I wasn't able to check things out.

Your option works but it removes the files with *.mp4 from my list.

What i was looking for was a solution to remove the extension .mp4 or .avi or .???
So basicly remove the last 4 characters

I've got this to work but it works only for the first line

put listFiles(currentFolder(), ) into field "fFiles"
delete char -4 to -1 of word 1 of field "fFiles"

How to go throuh the entire list of files??

Kind regards Ivo

[Klaus]

Hi Ivo,

ah, you only want to see MP4 files in the menu but without the siffix .mp4, right?
Simply use REPLACE with EMPTY
...
put listFiles(currentFolder(), ) fFiles
filter tFiles with "*.mp4"
replace ".mp4" with EMPTY in tFiles
put tFiles into fld "fFiles"
## or into button...
...

Best

Klaus

[mwieder]

Any number of ways to do this. Here's one:

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put listFiles(currentFolder(), ) into tFiles
set the itemdelimiter to "."
repeat for each line tFileName in tFiles
  put item 1 of tFileName & cr after field "fFiles"
end repeat

(Klaus - unfortunately the replace command won't replace wildcard templates)

[ivaho]

Thank you

Your code was adding the files to the files list but putting

put empty into field "fFiles"

before the code, solved that to for me