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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Hi Cyrille (and Iohannes),<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">This is embarrassing; I consulted the [pd~] help file many times, but I somehow didn’t find the right placement for the -nogui flag and kept getting errors – I thought I was missing something basic. With your
kind encouragement, I have found the right syntax:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">[pd~ start -nogui foo.pd(<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Hope this can help someone else as dumb as me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Phil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Pd-list <pd-list-bounces@lists.iem.at> on behalf of cyrille henry <ch@chnry.net><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, January 26, 2023 at 11:52 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>pd-list@lists.iem.at <pd-list@lists.iem.at><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [PD] Can [pd~ start ...] *not* open a window?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Le 27/01/2023 à 05:01, Phil Stone a écrit :<br>
> Hi all,<br>
> <br>
> I hope this is a quick question: is it possible for a [pd~ start foo.pd( message to **not** open/display foo.pd’s canvas? This seems like it might be a job for ‘-nogui’, but I’ve had no luck with that (and where would it go, if it’s the answer)?<br>
> <br>
> Thanks for any enlightenment,<br>
> <br>
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The answer is in pd~ help file!<br>
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"pd~ start" takes as arguments<br>
any startup flags you wish to send the sub-process. For example, specify "-nogui" to<br>
stop the sub-process's GUI from appearing.<br>
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cheers<br>
Cyrille<br>
<br>
> Phil<br>
> <br>
> Phil Stone<br>
> <br>
> Davis, CA. USA<br>
> <br>
> <br>
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