Loading local image files

[AlexandreRangel]

Using cables standalone, is this the right way to load local images?
I need to compose the path and then dynamically load the chosen images from a different paths in the file system.

[steam0r]

try composing a file url, something like: file://J:/Dropbox/artist-forest-anims/myimage.png

you can get started by dragging a texture to your patch then copying the url and start composing from this

[AlexandreRangel]

Thank you, @steam0r ! The file:// prefix fixed it!

[AlexandreRangel]

But then I saved the project file and it stopped working !?

[steam0r]

what do you mean, stopped working? this seems to be (weirdly) okay for me:

[AlexandreRangel]

It started giving the same error message as before.

[steam0r]

not sure where you are getting the windows/system32 from, but make sure your file-url starts with file:// not file:\

[AlexandreRangel]

Weird, right? The path should be as the node on the right ( file:\ )

[steam0r]

should be file:// (forward slashes), otherwise i think someone down the line thinks this is a local file or something

[AlexandreRangel]

Tried forward and backward slashes. Same result.
Smells like some bug, because it worked for a couple of hours and I can't make it work again.

[steam0r]

can you share your .cables file, i will then try to take a look...as reduced as possible, please

[AlexandreRangel]

I deleted the file:// bit from the path, then it worked. Then typed the file:// again on the string.
Now it's working.

Then I quit cables and when opening the file, it's broken again.
The trick of editing the path fixes it again (clearing and re adding the file:// part).

Do you still want the .cables file?

[steam0r]

heh, yes, please

[AlexandreRangel]

Here's the simplified file:
Slideshow_A_03_simple.zip

[steam0r]

• your "index" is set to 0.15, this has to be integer
• readdir should get a directory...not a file url, try the outputs of the SystemDirs op
• texture then should get the file:// url

here is a quick example of a slideshow through all your images in your systems download folder:

simple_slideshow.cables.zip

[AlexandreRangel]

Great! Thank you very much, @steam0r !!