[PD-dev] help me with my DLL snafu

[Miller Puckette]

So the simplest way I can think of doing this would be to put a "settings"
file in the pd bin directory, which would be read in if any user who
doesn't already have Pd preferences set starts Pd up.  Then when the
user saves new (customized) settings they would take over from the initial
settings.

And yes, it would be necessary to have some way to specify paths relative
to "pd" rather than to the current patch... maybe any directory
named in "path" should be taken as a filename either relative to the running
Pd binary or to the current document (as it is now.)

cheers
Miller

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 11:44:48PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> On Dec 20, 2005, at 7:36 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
> 
> >Then the users would have to dump "pd-settings.reg" into their  
> >registrys
> >somehow?  I wouldn't know how to do that.
> 
> You just double-click any .reg file, and it'll prompt you whether you  
> want to add it to the registry.  You then press Yes, then OK.
> 
> >Is this just to make patches
> >able to find libraries relative to the Pd install?  I think that could  
> >be done
> >much more OS-independently...
> 
> This is to distribute with Pd-extended so that newbies don't have to  
> figure out how to load libraries in order to use patches that rely on  
> them.  Currently, I maintain a Mac OS X and a Windows file.  I think  
> its fine to do it this way, it just uses the existing preferences  
> system.  The .pdrc would be a OS-independent way ;).
> 
> The env vars that I mentioned would all me to replace "C:\Program  
> Files" with %ProgramFiles% which would work on Windows for any  
> language.  For example auf Deutsch, its called "C:\Programme".
> 
> .hc
> 
> >
> >cheers
> >Miller
> >
> >On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 12:10:14AM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> >>Hallo,
> >>Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> >>>Even better, there are global environment variables for this stuff,  
> >>>on
> >>>Windows, there is %ProgramFile%, %SystemRoot%, etc. on UNIXish there  
> >>>is
> >>>$HOME, etc. etc.
> >>>
> >>>We should allow Pd to use those env vars in the preferences, that  
> >>>would
> >>>make it much easier to write defaults prerefences files that are  
> >>>included
> >>>in distros (i.e. pd-settings.reg and org.pure-data.pd.plist).
> >>
> >>*That* would be immensely useful, also in workshops.
> >>
> >>Ciao
> >>--  
> >> Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
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