[PD-dev] saving preset pools in the parent path, rather than the abstraction path?

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Thu Nov 11 23:14:23 CET 2004


Hallo,
B. Bogart hat gesagt: // B. Bogart wrote:

> Anyone has a suggestion on how to force my pool data to save in the same dir as
> the parent patch of the abstraction, rather than the directory where the
> abstraction resides?

This question comes up very often, actually. In RRADical I use the
only solution, that in my experience always works: use absolute paths
like you get them from [open/savepanel]

I am convinced: relative paths are The Wrong Thing To Do In Pd (tm)
- except for some usecases like namespacing.

(It surely is possible to hack around the fact, that abstractions
don't know their parents when they are written - for example using
some Python scripting - but IMO it's hacking and thus should be left
to Yves [excuse the silly Graz reference].)

Ciao
-- 
 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__




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