[PD] opening pd from command line in os x
Max Neupert
abonnements at revolwear.com
Thu Mar 2 17:31:51 CET 2006
Am 02.03.2006 um 15:37 schrieb james tittle:
> On Mar 2, 2006, at 6:45 AM, Max Neupert wrote:
>> so in my case:
>> user$ /Applications/Pd-0.38.4-extended-RC8.app/Contents/MacOS/Pd -
>> rt -noaudio /Users/user/Desktop/patch.pd
>>
>> but what it does is just opening pd, ignoring the flags and
>> without opening the patch.
>>
>> what's wrong?
>
> ...well, the pd.app's actually have two binaries named "pd": the
> one you are addressing is actually just a re-named wish
> shell...when you double click the application it calls this renamed
> wish shell, which then loads the AppMain.tcl script (which is just
> a link to the pd.tk) and eventually starts pd: main take-home
> point here is that there's no argument passing in this chain...
> ...however, the actual pd binary's path is: /Applications/Pd-0.38.4-
> extended-RC8.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pd
ah. okay this was half of the problem. it still will not work with
the hcs extended package, but it does with millers version.
> ...so, the following should help (never use "-rt" on osx!):
why not?
>
> /Applications/Pd-0.38.4-extended-RC8.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pd -
> nrt -noaudio -open /Users/user/Desktop/patch.pd
>
> james
thank you all!
max.
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