[PD] Loading Gui-Plugin in a Directory Other than in Standard Path

[Jonathan Wilkes]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> To: pd-list at iem.at
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> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 4:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] Loading Gui-Plugin in a Directory Other than in Standard Path
> 
> On 01/25/2013 03:31 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>> 
>>>  From: me.grimm <megrimm at gmail.com>
>>>  To: pd_list Listserve <pd-list at iem.at>
>>>  Cc: 
>>>  Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 9:25 AM
>>>  Subject: [PD] Loading Gui-Plugin in a Directory Other than in Standard 
> Path
>>> 
>>>  i tried declare like so:
>>> 
>>>  [declare -stdpath /Users/megrimm/Desktop]
>>> 
>>>  but that didn't work.
>>> 
>>>  is there anyway to load gui plugins other than dropping them in
>>>  ~/Library/Pd , etc ?
>> 
>>  I don't know.
>> 
>>  Hans-- is there a translation page that shows the new way to do
>>  everything in Pd-extended that used to be done through the
>>  path and startup dialogs?
>> 
>>  I guess first of all-- is it possible to do everything on the current
>>  release that could be done on the last, such as the behavior
>>  in question above?
> 
> You can set paths in the preferences still.

Ok, I didn't see that.

> I never tested whether GUI
> plugins can be loaded from the user-set path because I didn't see a reason 
> why
> someone would want to do that.

By user-set, do you mean by setting the paths in Preferences from the
"Edit" menu?

Also, is there a tcl variable that holds the paths that were set by a
[declare], or one that holds the paths for the currently opened patches?

-Jonathan

> 
> As for the prefs pane for loading libs at startup, that is bad behavior that
> should be discouraged.  Libs should be loaded in the patch using [import] or
> [declare -lib].
> 
> .hc
> 
>> 
>>  -Jonathan
>> 
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