[PD-dev] pixelTANGO, and when a patch needs to know where to look for things...

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Mon Nov 28 18:39:38 CET 2005


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With the Pd-extended build in its current setup, those abstractions  
would always be available with a [pixeltango/fx/] prefix.  Or if we had  
the using/declare/import object, that would set the path to them for  
you, then you wouldn't need the prefix.

.hc

On Nov 28, 2005, at 10:32 AM, B. Bogart wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> As some of you know pixelTANGO dynamically generates an array of
> abstractions from a directory. These are a kind of plugin implimented  
> in
> a patch (pixelTANGO).
>
> The biggest issue is installing pixelTANGO on multiple operating
> systems. Since we need to read the "plugin" directory then we need to
> know where it is, which could be:
>
> /applications/blah/contents/extra/fx
> /usr/lib/pd/extra/fx
>
> or some horrible path in windows.
>
> Any brilliant ideas on setting these messages in an abstraction from a
> hans's package build-system?
>
> The only things I can think of are:
>
> 1. Try and use zexy to test the OS and assume we know where the fx/
> should be installed. The user would only be able to install it where we
> assume...
>
> 2. instruct the user to edit the path manually. :(
>
> I really dislike both these options..
>
> Any brilliant ideas about setting this path based on where those fx/  
> are
> actually installed?
>
> (and in case your wondering according to Miller there is indeed no way
> of telling where an abstraction is loaded from. (fx/ would be in the
> same directory as pt.layerfx.)
>
> Thanks .b.
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