[java-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: [Max5] MaxSystem.locateFile

> As an aside... I'm trying to remember whether there's a "locatefile"  
> message one can send to Max without resorting to an API. If so, it's  
> probably worth checking whether this works properly. There may also  
> be a call from JavaScript - it's a while since I looked.

The File object in js gets the path OK with something  like this:

function test(v)
{
    f = new File(v);
    post(f.foldername+"
");
}


And the absolutepath object also works fine.

I assume both of these must use the same underlying API that the mxj object via JNI is using?

> Or you could install my Python or Groovy stuff and try the call from  
> there - this is still a call into Java via MXJ but it takes any local  
> Eclipse machinery out of the picture. But that's possibly just making  
> the debugging process more complicated.

I installed your jython stuff and I get a whole bunch of "unable to construct instance" errors I mentioned earlier in the thread. Presumably this is one for each of the instances in the example. I didn't try to find ScriptingEngineBase to see if there's a locateFile() call in there but at least this shows as you say it is not (apprently) my Eclipse environment but the JVM perhaps.

I have a couple more things to try...

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martin robinson
max/msp java c
installations/performance and systems