[PD-dev] PD.app 38-test 7

B. Bogart ben at ekran.org
Mon Oct 25 00:57:01 CEST 2004


Oh and I forgot to mention I get this error at the start of the console
before all the libs fail to load:

error parsing RC arguments

RC??

Maybe this is a hint.

B.

> Hey Hans-Chrisoph,
>
> I've never used .pdrc so I suppose it needs to be in the home directory?
> This does seem natural.
>
> I looked at the plist file and everything looks like its getting set and
> read on that end, nothing garbled. Indeed I am now seeing my abstractions
> loading fine, looks like its just the libs that are failing, Gem, OSC,
> zexy, all the stuff I've put in "startup"
>
> I'll try a pdrc now.
>
> Thanks for the pointers.
>
> B.
>
>>
>> The .pdrc functionality is unchanged in .38, AFAIK.  I don't know
>> what's the root of your problem, but it would be good to figure it out
>> so that paths work.  The "startup" stuff is saved in
>> ~/Library/Preferences/com.ucsd.pd.plist, but I think this will be
>> changing to ~/Library/Preferences/org.puredata.pd.plist
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On Oct 24, 2004, at 11:14 AM, B. Bogart wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, well putting the .app in applications did not change anything, its
>>> still not finding any of my externals (even though I copied them into
>>> the
>>> extra folder inside the pd.app. I don't get it.
>>>
>>> Where do I put the PDRC when using the .app?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ben
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> hi,
>>>>
>>>> i think it is still necessary to put the pd.app directly in
>>>> /applications. if you don't do so strange things happen.
>>>>
>>>> it is easiest to put your own externals into
>>>> /applications/pd.app/contents/resources/extra as this folder is in the
>>>> search path and all the externals that come with the package are in
>>>> there. gem is also already there.
>>>>
>>>> why don't you want to use a .pdrc? it works, you know ...
>>>>
>>>> lg
>>>> martin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 23, 2004, at 20:10, B. Bogart wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hey all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I can't figure out how to get the PD.app to load my externals/libs.
>>>>> I can add the paths easily enough but when I try and put anything
>>>>> into
>>>>> the
>>>>> "startup" setup pd can't find it. I've tried absolute paths, relative
>>>>> paths, paths relative to pd paths... still can't get it to load my
>>>>> stuff.
>>>>> It can't seem to find my abstractions either so I guess -path options
>>>>> are
>>>>> not working either.
>>>>>
>>>>> for example my Gem is installed in:
>>>>>
>>>>> /Users/admin/work/libs/cgc/Gem.pd_darwin
>>>>>
>>>>> And console reports:
>>>>>
>>>>> tried /Users/admin/work/libs/cgc/Gem
>>>>> .pd_darwin and failed
>>>>> tried /Users/admin/work/libs/cgc/Gem
>>>>> //Users/admin/work/libs/cgc/Gem
>>>>> .pd_darwin and failed
>>>>> /Users/admin/work/libs/cgc/Gem
>>>>> : can't load library
>>>>>
>>>>> Where are these options stored? I could try editing the file manually
>>>>> to
>>>>> get things moving (maybe) Any other way to supply PD with commandline
>>>>> args
>>>>> with the pd.app (other than .pdrc)?.
>>>>>
>>>>> I start my old pd-0.37-1 with:
>>>>>
>>>>> ~/work/pd/bin/pd -rt -helppath ~/work/abstractions-tot-help -path
>>>>> ~/work/extra -path ~/work/libs -path ~/work/abstractions-v -path
>>>>> ~/work/abstractions-tot -nosound -lib cgc/Gem:pmpd:OSC:zexy:pool
>>>>>
>>>>> (Oh and in the console I get error: .printout.text: no such object)
>>>>> which
>>>>> is caused by Apple-C to copy the console buffer.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> B.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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