GetProjectPath() returns recording path?

[amagalma]

Hello!

GetProjectPath() seems to return the recording path. So in my case it returnds (project path)/Audio



Is it possible to get just the (project path)?

Thanks!

[Meo-Ada Mespotine]

Maybe with EnumProjects(), which gives you the path(and filename) of the current project-file, after the project has been saved. This is usually also the path to the project.

Although, this might be a problem, when someone saves the project-file itself somewhere else, while having the "project-assets" at a different place, but this should be a rare problem, I suppose...
If that's the case, using the returned path of GetProjectPath() and getting rid of the last directory in it(in your case "/Audio", in most other cases "/Recording") should lead to the third possible projectfolder.

Using GetProjectPath() and EnumProjects() both should be good enough in most cases.


Management summary:
EnumProject() - the path to the RPP-File and often the projectpath
GetProjectPath() - the recording directory and, if you get rid of the last folder in the returned project-path-string, the other possible project-folder

[amagalma]

Thanks mespotine!



I found out that GetProjectPath() returns the actual project path if the project is not saved, but returns the recording path if the project is saved! :S


So to get the project path one should do this:

function GetCurrentProjPath()
 local _, projfn = reaper.EnumProjects( -1, "" )
  if projfn == "" then
    return reaper.GetProjectPath("")
  else
    return string.match(projfn, ".+\\")
  end
end

path = GetCurrentProjPath()

[Meo-Ada Mespotine]

I found out that GetProjectPath() returns the actual project path if the project is not saved, but returns the recording path if the project is saved! :S

Oh, didn't know that tiny little detail, will add that to my Reaper-API-docs right away

May I use your function in my function-collection, that I'm currently working on? Properly credited of course...

[amagalma]

Yes, sure!