From 63853899de48eec84718fac91487c0f0da439f40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <eighthave@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 05:41:02 +0000
Subject: handle any message as a file name

svn path=/trunk/externals/tclfile/; revision=15730
---
 exists-help.pd | 22 ++++++++++++++++++----
 exists.tcl     | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/exists-help.pd b/exists-help.pd
index 9cde207..9ec95b2 100644
--- a/exists-help.pd
+++ b/exists-help.pd
@@ -1,20 +1,27 @@
-#N canvas 137 104 448 333 10;
+#N canvas 351 42 448 333 10;
 #X obj 33 166 exists;
 #X floatatom 36 202 5 0 0 0 - - -;
 #X obj 37 226 bng 15 250 50 0 empty empty empty 17 7 0 10 -262144 -1
 -1;
 #X msg 65 91 symbol unexistent?;
-#X msg 41 60 symbol exists.tcl;
+#X msg 34 39 symbol exists.tcl;
 #X obj 239 183 exists;
 #X floatatom 242 219 5 0 0 0 - - -;
 #X obj 243 243 bng 15 250 50 0 empty empty empty 17 7 0 10 -262144
 -1 -1;
 #X msg 247 77 bang;
-#X msg 274 136 symbol /tmp/;
-#X msg 290 158 /tmp;
+#X msg 272 116 symbol /tmp/;
+#X msg 288 138 /tmp;
 #X obj 110 306 pddp/pddplink http://tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TclCmd/file.htm#M15
 ;
 #X text 18 294 this is a clone of this command:;
+#X msg 48 63 exists.tcl;
+#X msg 86 111 this is a test;
+#X msg 83 137 list one 2 three 4;
+#X msg 106 171 1 2 3 4;
+#X msg 86 208 float 1;
+#X msg 144 201 1 two;
+#X msg 291 163 list this is a test;
 #X connect 0 0 1 0;
 #X connect 1 0 2 0;
 #X connect 3 0 0 0;
@@ -24,3 +31,10 @@
 #X connect 8 0 5 0;
 #X connect 9 0 5 1;
 #X connect 10 0 5 1;
+#X connect 13 0 0 0;
+#X connect 14 0 0 0;
+#X connect 15 0 0 0;
+#X connect 16 0 0 0;
+#X connect 17 0 0 0;
+#X connect 18 0 0 0;
+#X connect 19 0 5 1;
diff --git a/exists.tcl b/exists.tcl
index fed8da3..53a4918 100644
--- a/exists.tcl
+++ b/exists.tcl
@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
 package require Tclpd 0.2.3
 package require TclpdLib 0.19
 
+proc exists::make_symbol {argslist} {
+    set output [pd::strip_selectors $argslist]
+    set selector [lindex $output 0]
+    if {$selector eq "list" || $selector eq "float"} {
+        set output [lrange $output 1 end]
+    }
+    return $output
+}
+
 proc exists::constructor {self args} {
     if {![namespace exists $self]} {
         namespace eval $self {}
@@ -22,6 +31,12 @@ proc exists::0_symbol {self args} {
     exists::0_bang $self
 }
 
+proc exists::0_anything {self args} {
+    # HOT inlet
+    variable ${self}::filename [make_symbol $args]
+    exists::0_bang $self
+}
+
 proc exists::0_bang {self} {
     variable ${self}::current_canvas
     variable ${self}::filename
@@ -38,4 +53,9 @@ proc exists::1_symbol {self args} {
     variable ${self}::filename [pd::arg 0 symbol]
 }
 
+proc exists::1_anything {self args} {
+    # COLD inlet
+    variable ${self}::filename [make_symbol $args]
+}
+
 pd::class exists
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