<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 02:15, Hans-Christoph Steiner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hans@at.or.at">hans@at.or.at</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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There are two new, easy ways to write objects for Pd: tclpd by Federico Ferri and pdlua by Claude Heiland-Allen, Frank Barknecht and Martin Peach. Both are now included in Pd-extended 0.43 and are automatically loaded at startup. [...]<br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all">I was so excited to try tclpd, that even though pd 0.43 happens not to work under my user account, I gave it a go under another account. Let me share my not so merry experience, and sorry if it goes beyond tclpd itself.<br>
<br>So this a user account that never ran pd-extended, although it (latest autobuild) is already installed on the machine (Ubuntu Lucid).<br><br>I start a new patch and try to create [tclpd], i get this error:<br><br>maximum object loading depth 1000 reached<br>
tclpd<br>... couldn't create<br><br>I quit so I can add tclpd to the preferences file, but I find there is no .pdextended file.<br><br>I go to preferences, it lets me add the path to tclpd, I click Apply, OK. As we, the well-connected know it now, this has no practical effect - except that it seems that on quit, a new default .pdextended is created - with no reference to tclpd however.<br>
<br>I open .pdextended in a text editor and add tclpd to the only list there is: 'loadlib'.<br><br>I go back to pd, [tclpd] still won't create.<br><br>Back to text editor, copy-paste 'path' section of another user's .pdextended into this one, add tclpd.<br>
<br>Back to pd, [tclpd] still won't create.<br><br><br>This is where I am now.<br>Please tell me if I'm doing anything wrong and/or if I shall file any of this as a bug.<br><br><br>Thanks,<br><br>András<br>