Procedure Loader

Thanks for publishing that. I've played around with it, it is much more useful than my hack.

I had to tweak one line in recursiveProcList()

SpecialDirPath("Igor Pro User Files",0,0,0) + "User Procedures"

though.

It also does currently not follow windows style shortcuts to folders. The function

GetAllFilesRecursivelyFromPath

I'm using at https://github.com/AllenInstitute/MIES/blob/31b2bdd7722bd66bb8f412a8631… supports shortcuts but is slower as it supports semicolons in names as well.

Using that could be done with something like

string str = GetAllFilesRecursivelyFromPath("tempPathFF")

return replacestring("|", SortList(GrepList(str, ".*\.ipf$", 0, "|"), "|"), ";")

but would require that you extract it out of MIES.

EDIT: I'm on windows

Thank you, Thomas.

Good catch of the SpecialDirPath - that would lead to problems if ipf files are stored in User Files but outside of User Procedures and Igor Procedures.

And yes, the relatively simple recursiveProcList() doesn't follow shortcuts on either platform. This was originally for end users who would install packages only in the  User Procedures folder - my installer doesn't allow other options - so didn't need the complication of following links. But, since files can be #included that way, I should probably think about an update. I'll take a careful look at your GetAllFilesRecursivelyFromPath() function. I also discovered a lot of other useful utilities in your repository file! Thanks for that.

@thomas_braun

should now follow shortcuts and aliases to files and folders on both mac and windows.

while updating this code I discovered two things that make no sense to me:

@tony: Thanks for the update.
 

does compile here on IP8.

Works in Igor 9, too. I guess this converts the paths like "C:folder:file.txt" in the text wave to just "file.txt".

That kind of code needs an explanation comment.

@JimProuty

That exchange about the wave assignment dates back to 2019, and whatever was going on back then is long since forgotten :)

Your point about commenting abstruse code is well taken.

Regarding

In Igor 8 Indexed file doesn't have an optional parameter for the separator string. Igor 8 always uses a ";" separator to separate the list. Apparently you can use that character in a file name(!).

So Igor 9 has a new optional separator parameter so you can avoid the problem. I don't think that "\r" is a valid file name character, so I'd try that. Use "????" for the optional creatorStr you'd need to specify in order to get to the last optional separatorStr parameter.