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[anomad]

. hello again!

. i've been working on a module that takes a keyword via OSC and looks for images in a directory based on that keyword. if there are images in there, i want to load the images in banks 7 and 8.

. i have the full path and filename, but don't understand how direct_media_change is supposed to work.

. when i print tuple (called loadData) it looks like this:

('/Users/vj/google_images/keyword/010.jpg', 96)

. 96 being the id of the upper left media slot of bank 7 (right?) and try to load the image:

modul8.setValue('direct_media_change',loadData)

. but nothing happens. any ideas, modul8 gurus? am i using the new keyword correctly? did i mess up my tuple?

. thanks!

-james
(a nomad. )

[videomasta]

modul8.setValue('direct_media_change',[theMediaPos, theFilePath],0)

theMediaPos is the number inthe media set
theFilePath ist the path of the new media

hope it helps


hey modul8 guys. we need a documentaion of the python codebase.
it takes hours with trial and error to find out how it works.
you are wasting our time ....

you totally forgot to document the new keywords

[anomad]

. brilliant! it works!

. (and i agree about the documentation, too )

. thank you for the quick answer.

-james
(a nomad. )

[anomad]

. ok, it works - once.

. i created a simple module, with a load button (loadImg) and a text entry area for the full path to the image directory (loadPath)

. my goal is to load banks 7 and 8 with up to 31 images from the directory specified.

. in Init() i import os, and set defaults for 'loadImg' and 'imgPath'

. in MessageEvent() i have the following :

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if msg == 'loadImgs' :
   if param['value'] :
      # change debug to 1 to print info...
      debug = 1
      imgCount = 0
      if debug : print "looking for directory :", loadPath
      if os.path.isdir(loadPath) :
         for fn in os.listdir(loadPath):
            if imgCount < 32 :
               loadData = (96 + imgCount),loadPath+"/"+fn
               if debug : print "Found Image : ", loadData
               modul8.setValue('direct_media_change',loadData,0)
               imgCount+=1
elif msg == 'loadPath' :
   loadPath = str(param['text'])


. so, it checks if the path is a directory and then loads up to 31 images from it.

. the first time i run the module (click my load button) - the images are loaded correctly in the correct positions

. if i change to another directory, and click load, only the first image in that directory is loaded, although the print statements show that it sees all the files.

. if i change to a third directory, all the images from the second directory get loaded into the media window and subsequently disappear!

. if i click load again (attempting to load the third directory) the images thumbnails load in (but all have the red dot on them) and disappear right away.

. if i re-compile and run the module, it exhibits the same 'briefly show the last requested images and then they disappear' behavior

. is modul8 caching some of the data? a bug? if i quit modul8 and restart it, it will work once, but then not load anything else.

. anyone have any ideas what's causing this?

. thanks!
-james

[anomad]

. update!

. ok, the code above seems to error out b/c i try and load bank 8, last media spot.

. if i change

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loadData = (96 + imgCount),loadPath+"/"+fn

. to

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loadData = imgCount,loadPath+"/"+fn

. (load into bank 1 and 2, rather than 7 and 8 ) it works just fine!

. now i know.

[aalex]

Hi!
Thanks for this nice piece of code. Helps me get started.

Did you get relative paths to work? I tried both "./images" and "images" with no success. I also tried this :

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import os

tmp_path = "images"
os.path.normpath(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), tmp_path))


...but it still doesn't work. It works in a standalone Python app, though. Maybe there is a Modul8 way to do it ?

a

[anomad]

. nah... i used the absolute path (too many years as a linux admin, i guess

. /Users/userid/images/ (where userid is the login id you're running Modul8 from)

[aalex]

Hello,
I finally got it :

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import os
print os.getenv('HOME')


Yeah !