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Index › Programming Questions & Help › Sound,  Music Libraries › loading midis out of a online folder

pixonaut YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 18

loading midis out of a online folder Jul 6th, 2008, 5:23pm   Hi I had written a sketch and now i want to get him online. But in my sketch i use this to get a list of midis where i can choose. Code: String midiFolder = "...path/midis/"; File folder = new File(midiFolder); String files[] = folder.list(); String actSong = files[int(random(files.length))]; score = JMEtude.createScore(midiFolder + actSong); But how can i make this with a online folder?

pixonaut YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 18

Re: loading midis out of a online folder Reply #1 - Jul 10th, 2008, 8:28am   I now tryed it another way. The midi files are now in the data folder. Code: java.io.File folder = new java.io.File(dataPath("\\midis")); String midiFolder = folder; String files[] = folder.list(); String actSong = files[int(random(files.length))]; score = JMEtude.createScore(midiFolder + "\\" + actSong); But the line String midiFolder = folder; give me an error, becous the file object isnt a String. How can I create a String out of this File object?

antiplastik YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 699 France	Re: loading midis out of a online folder Reply #2 - Jul 10th, 2008, 9:17am   java.io.File reference in the Java doc : http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/File.html String getAbsolutePath() Returns the absolute pathname string of this abstract pathname.

pixonaut YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 18	Re: loading midis out of a online folder Reply #3 - Jul 10th, 2008, 9:54am   Thank you again antiplastik.

pixonaut YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 18	Re: loading midis out of a online folder Reply #4 - Jul 10th, 2008, 11:59am   I dont understand why it not work. Offline it works perfectly. Get the midis from the data folder and plays it. After exporting and uploading the sketch, nothing happens. Here is the whole sketch with source code. >>click

antiplastik YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 699 France

Re: loading midis out of a online folder Reply #5 - Jul 10th, 2008, 12:08pm   see the Reference > Troubleshooting section about such browser/applet issues : http://processing.org/reference/troubleshooting/index.html#applet launch the applet in your browser and open the java console, and you will see that some exception are thrown indeed : Quote: Error while running applet. java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.io.FilePermission null\data\midis read)