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greyskale YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 36	folder creation from code Jul 25th, 2006, 11:18pm   i would like to create a sketch that looks for a specific folder on the users machine... if the folder is not found, the program will create it. is this possible with p5?

watz Full Member Offline Posts: 202	Re: folder creation from code Reply #1 - Jul 26th, 2006, 1:17am   Code: File f=new File("c:\path\to\folder"); f.mkdir(); This will create the folder if it doesn't exist, and do nothing if it does. It'd be more elegant to create the directory relevant to the directory the sketch is run in, but hardcoding the folder name the way shown above works fine.
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fry YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 2623 mass, usa	Re: folder creation from code Reply #2 - Jul 26th, 2006, 3:06pm   see also the createPath() and savePath() functions in the developer's reference.