<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447713829939_9659"><span>> </span>because it doesn't?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447713829939_9756"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447713829939_9813">Sorry-- I'm describing the pd-extended 0.42 Debian package, which AFAICT is <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447713829939_9875">leveraged by Pd-l2ork's build scripts. That's what I'm using to test my GUI port. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447713829939_9931" dir="ltr">I can confirm that clicking the menu (or double-clicking on a Pd file) starts the <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447713829939_10021" dir="ltr">program from core->GUI. I can easily confirm this because I haven't written the <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447713829939_10022" dir="ltr">function to do the opposite.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447713829939_10055" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447713829939_10057" dir="ltr">But if OSX app bundles actually requires it to go the other way in order to <br></div><div dir="ltr">work properly, I suppose I'll have to implement that anyway.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447713829939_10094" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447713829939_10095" dir="ltr">-Jonathan<br> </div><br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Monday, November 16, 2015 3:38 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig@iem.at> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">On 11/16/2015 09:03 PM, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote:<br clear="none">> In the Pd-extended app bundle for OSX, why does wish start the pd binary, <br clear="none"><br clear="none">because that is the only way to make the Pd.app behave as a "proper" OSX<br clear="none">App (with a nix menu that displays a proper application name)<div class="yqt9206475710" id="yqtfd06598"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> while on Debian it is the pd binary which starts wish?</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">because it doesn't?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">if you start Pd via the menu (or the file association), it will start<br clear="none">the GUI which will launch the core.<br clear="none">this is mainly to open additional files (via file association) in an<br clear="none">already running instance of Pd.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">if you start Pd from the cmdline (e.g. by running "pd") it will start<br clear="none">the core which will launch the GUI - which is most likely the expected<br clear="none">way to start Pd and all it's cmdline args.<br clear="none">if - on OSX - you start Pd from the cmdline (e.g. by running<br clear="none">"Pd.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pd") it will start the core which will<br clear="none">launch the GUI.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">so the reason why Pd is sometimes launched from the core and sometimes<br clear="none">from the GUI is that there are different use-cases.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">gfmsadr<br clear="none">IOhannes<div class="yqt9206475710" id="yqtfd90851"><br clear="none"></div><br><div class="yqt9206475710" id="yqtfd26452">_______________________________________________<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at" href="mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at">Pd-list@lists.iem.at</a> mailing list<br clear="none">UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> <a shape="rect" href="http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list" target="_blank">http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>