looking for a file on the disk

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On 25/07/2008 at 12:05, xxxxxxxx wrote:

User Information:
Cinema 4D Version:   10.5 
Platform:      Mac OSX  ; 
Language(s) :   C.O.F.F.E.E  ;

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I am trying to write a little script which checks on the disk for a file to be written, then read the values and uses in a xpresso network.
I am starting now.
First task is check that the file is there or not.
First trouble, the code I am writing does not work.
this is it:

> main() \> { \> \> var filename = ("test.txt"); \> \> var a = FALSE; \> while ( a == FALSE){ \> println("the file is not there"); \> //something is wrong here: \> a = GeFileExist(filename, FALSE); \> //what is it? \> } \> \> println("Now the file IS there"); \> } \>

I am sure it's a simple thing but I am not yet familiar with coffee.
Could you help me?
Thanks
G>

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On 25/07/2008 at 12:55, xxxxxxxx wrote:

If this is in an expression, it won't work as COFFEE Expressions cannot do any form of file system access (for security reasons). The way to go then is to create a COFFEE plugin (say, a CommandData plugin).

Also, realize that the Filename 'filename' should be a full path. Relative paths don't work ... or may only refer to the current working directory set up by Cinema 4D - that is, the Cinema 4D install folder (you'll have to check this).

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On 25/07/2008 at 13:03, xxxxxxxx wrote:

thanks, would be the plugin accessible through the xpresso interface?
what ultimately I am looking for is:
and external applications generates a string of values in a file.
Cinema is open and checks for the file to be written.
As soon as the file changes the file is read and values fired in a xpresso network, which is used to simplify parametric modelling...
is this possible at all?

If I write a COFEE plugin, would this be a module in the xpresso network or something else?

Thanks again
G.

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On 28/07/2008 at 01:26, xxxxxxxx wrote:

I don't think this is possible in COFFEE.

cheers,
Matthias

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On 28/07/2008 at 10:12, xxxxxxxx wrote:

so shall I use C++?
or is it not possible at all?

rui_mac wrote an expresso block which reads and writes texts... it was on a magazine in 2005... unfortunately the code is encrypt...

would it be possible, by having such an xpresso block, to say something like:
if the frame is [0], look for this file, if the file exist read and if not keep looking for it,   take values and do something, start again.

please help

thanks
G.