[PD] .pdrc / error parsing rc arguments

vade doktorp at mac.com
Tue Feb 15 17:39:59 CET 2005


nevermind.

it was staring me in the face.

sorry for the traffic.


today is one of those days ;)


On Feb 15, 2005, at 10:51 AM, vade wrote:

> Out of curiosity, it was mentioned about OS X not using .pdrc anymore 
> (or at least it being depreciated)?
>
> is this true?
>
> what is "osX the application-setting-system (or however it is 
> called)?" ?
>
> .38-2.app seems to be working just fine with a ~/.pdrc fwiw, and I 
> cant seem to find any other mechanism for pd prefs?
>
> someone care to enlighten me?
>
> On Feb 15, 2005, at 1:55 PM, .` °·' ± `.° '· wrote:
>
>> IOhannes m zmoelnig Geschrieben hat .      ::                     .
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> .` °·' ± `.° '· wrote:
>>>> hi,
>>>
>>>> reading startup file:  /users/local/.pdrc
>>>> error parsing rc arguments
>>
>> thanks much for helping
>>
>>> well, pd doesn't complain about not finding the file but rather 
>>> about an
>>> error while parsing it.
>>> so probably you should post your .pdrc (or at least: look hard at 
>>> it) to
>>> see what is wrong with it.
>>
>> -rt
>> -path /Users/1001/Library/Pd/Externals
>> -helppath /Users/1001/Library/Pd/Help
>> -path /Library/Pd/Externals
>> -helppath /Library/Pd/Help
>> -guishadow
>> -cordcolor #cccc00
>>
>>
>>>
>>> furthermore, please note, that as with pd>=0.38 the .pdrc is 
>>> deprecated
>>> in favour of .pdsettings (which has a completely different syntax)
>>> (note: .pdsettings only applies for linux; on windows the 
>>> configuration
>>> uses the registry; on osX the application-setting-system (or however 
>>> it
>>> is called))
>>> so probably you are best off by deleting the old .pdrc and start from
>>> scratch. (you can save the current settings via the File->Settings 
>>> dialogue)
>>
>> before i do something stupid.  i have noticed that portaudio etc. . 
>> actually
>> resides in a folder labeled internals inside the Pd folder : the 
>> original
>> is in usr/local/Pd.  but, the trouble is not finding the pdrc file . 
>> right ?
>>
>> so, any glaring problems come to the surface?  by starting from 
>> scratch
>> i assume you mean just a new pdrc file.
>>
>> also,  if this helps. . . if i try running 0.37 [which is what i was 
>> trying
>> in the first place] i get :
>>
>> reading startup file: /Users/1001/.pdrc
>> DigiCoreAudioDriver> Found 21 entries in 'SupportedApps.txt'.
>> using default input device number: 0
>> using default output device number: 3
>> nchan 2, flags 3, bufs 8, framesperbuf 256
>> pd_gui: pd process exited
>> /Applications/Pd.command: line 2:  1090 Segmentation fault
>> /usr/local/pd/bin/pd -rt
>> logout
>>
>>
>> thanks again for helping,
>>
>>     . zehn
>>
>>>
>>> mfg.a.dsr
>>> IOhannes
>>
>>
>>
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