[PD] declare and abstraction (cont.)

[Roman Haefeli]

On Sam, 2014-01-25 at 19:24 -0800, Miller Puckette wrote:
> Are you using readsf~ to read th soundfile?  Unfortunately, readsf~
> doesn't search along the canvas's path (for complicated reasons)

Do those complicated reasons make it unlikely that this is ever going to
change? Not that I consider it an important issue, I'm just curious.

>  and so needs 
> to be sent an explicit path, like "../folder/a.wav", to find files outside 
> the patch's directory.

Or if your abstractions know their relation to the main patch - for
instance, if they are located in folder that is on the same level as the
main patch - you just need to prepend the correct prefix to all incoming
(relative!) paths - for instance '../'.

> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:05:39PM +0100, rolfm at dds.nl wrote:
> > 
> > sorry, i should be more precise about what i experience.
> > 
> > i'm using "../folder" to load soundfiles in my patch.
> > while having a [declare -path .] in the main patch.
> > 
> > like i said in the first mail: this works when the patch is started
> > up 'directly'.

Because the directory of your patch is then the start directory of Pd
which is always included in the search path.

> > when i first start Pd and then open the patch with the menu-open
> > Pd cannot find the directory.

Because then Pd is started from somewhere else and [readsf~] doesn't
search in your patch's directory. It would be nice if [readsf~] would
respect the [declare]ation in your main patch, though.

Roman