Check if paperfolder active

[Stef123]

What I'd like to do in a script:
Check if active pane shows a paperfolder
If so, then return its full name.

[SkyFrontier]

List tabs, check paper folder, compare its base name with <xypaper> contents...?
(can't test the theory as of now, just an idea)

[Stef123]

Thanks Sky,
I was hoping for an easy way, some built-in detection SC command not known to me. But if nothing else turns up, I'd appreciate your help in the direction you pointed to. Not sure I understand what you mean by comparing the base name with <xypaper> contents. Pleaes explain whenever you find time.

[SkyFrontier]

Ok. A bit busy as of now, but may come up with something asap. Just a concept, as said, but sounds promising to me. Will test the limits (for instance, 2 paper folders listed) and check docs for a proper solution.
Stay tuned.

[Stef123]

Take your time. Just to make sure there is no misunderstanding - I need SC to recognize whether or not the active pane is in "paperfolder view mode" so to speak. I am not interested in its contents at this point, neither PF content nor regular list view content. Only want to see if a paperfolder is ON, and what PF file it is. SC-wise, without peeking at the blue title tab.

[SkyFrontier]

what about this:

echo tab("get", "path");

-does this suffice to you or do you need anything else?

(expanding, in case you already haven't seeing this:)
the code returns "paper:test", from an active tab displaying a paper folder.

A full test, then, would be:

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  $tst = tab("get", "path");
  $tst2 = gettoken("$tst", 1, ":");
  if($tst2 == "paper") {
     $nm = gettoken("$tst", 2, ":");
                      echo "I'm a paper, boy, and my name's '$nm'.";
                       }
   else { echo "Let the river flow: I'm not a paper!"; }

[Stef123]

Wow, thanks,
Although it still beats me how you pull this off. Not coming to terms with this gettoken stuff, but anyhow - tried modifing the parameters to get the full path, but I am just not up to par with these things.

Could you tweak it to show me the full path? I need to treat this file to a recoding makeover (related to my other post, UTF-8) - to automate the tedious manual conversions, but for that I need the file itself, not just the name-part.

[SkyFrontier]

sure.

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  $tst = tab("get", "path");
  $tst2 = gettoken("$tst", 1, ":");
  if($tst2 == "paper") {
     $nm = gettoken("$tst", 2, ":");
//assuming that current rules will still apply: 
//*all* papers are hold under <xypaper>, have ".txt" as ext
   $pth = "<xypaper>" . "\" . "$nm" . ".txt";
                      echo "I'm a paper, boy, and my path's:<crlf>'$pth'.";
                       }
   else { echo "Let the river flow: I'm not a paper!"; }

[bdeshi]

But paperfolder files can exist outside of <xypaper>.

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  $tab = tab('get', 'path');                                    // the tab location.
  end (gettoken($tab, 1, ':') != 'paper'),'Not a PaperFolder';  // if no paper: prefix, it's not a PF.
  $main = gettoken($tab, 2, ':',, 2).'.txt';                    // get the base/main paperpath element from tabpath.
                                                                // paperfiles have txt extension,but hidden in GUI.
  if exists($main){ $path = $main; }                            // if the path exists by itself, its a full path to
                                                                // an <xypaper> - external paper file.
  else            { $path = resolvepath($main, "<xypaper>\"); } // else make absolute path to paperfile in <xypaper>
  echo $path;                                                   // echo the absolutified path to paper file

[Stef123]

Whoa - that's the intimidating thing with scripting, it always turns out much more complicated. I would have been on the wrong track completely, assuming it's just another tweak on the gettoken parameters.

So anyway, unfortunately it still does not give me the path name. What I get is really weird, it gives me a totally unrelated path and the file name is just a single letter with the extension txt.

Judging from the code, you're kind of manufacturing it, in a Frankenstein-ian way of operating, grafting limbs and extensions on top of it. Which doesn't bother me, if the result would equal the real thing. Is there any way to let it read out the real path?

Just seeing Sammay's post right now - thanks for chiming in - will try it out later, got stuff coming up.....

[Stef123]

Thank you - this works exactly like I had hoped for.
Trying to learn something here - so you both started out the same way by analyzing the tab caption and taking it apart into components before and after colons :

Then it gets tricky. Didn't know you could use "exists" to check whether a path points to an external paper file. That's indeed the case - those "paper folders" belong to a proprietary software of a recording studio, they hold takes and tracks, references to thousands of small wav-files. I just abuse them as paperfolders. But XY doesn't leave them in UTF-8. To counter this, I am working on a script that re-codes them back to UTF-8 whenever I have them on display.

The other thing I take along from your help is resolvepath() - one of those commands I had skimmed over every so often, never really grasping what it's for. Now in hindsight, it suddenly reconnects to what SkyFrontier had started out with. It's mind-boggling to see this approach working out so well, coming full circle from tab caption to full name.

Thank you both. Awesome help, awesome forum.

[klownboy]

Cool Sammay, handy use of SC resolvepath. I thought the use of SC exists on 'paper' sounded familiar. I got into that topic with you and Don here http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... er#p114751 At the time, I was writing a change to ThumbnailMaintenance script which would recognize/account for paper in the thumbnail cache files. Don ended up tweaking SC exists to recognize 'paper' (i.e., to treat paper as a folder).

[Stef123]

A prime example for illustrating the benefits of a forum. Provided it is well maintained and kept alive by an active community of users. I like these dynamics when one thing leads to another.

@Ken
Good thing you pointed that out half a year ago, laying the groundwork with the extended use of "exists". I just wonder why that thread didn't come up when I searched for it, probably because I searched for paperfolder instead of just "paper".

[klownboy]

It is a great forum. I have XY bookmarks up the kazoo. Unfortunately too many to easily use and find things quickly. I really need to categorize them into separate folders or sub-folders.

[bdeshi]

just a note, I've not used exists() on the paper:-formatted path, but on the papername only, to check if it's not a <xypaper>-relative paper path.

I just wonder why that thread didn't come up when I searched for it, probably because I searched for paperfolder instead of just "paper".

I always get far better results using google. Case in point: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:xy ... per,exists the first result (at least in my locale) is Ken's referenced topic.
I have this set up as a search provider with xyfc keyword