[PD-dev] [declare -stdpath]: does it work?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Aug 13, 2008, at 5:22 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 17:42 -0500, Mike McGonagle wrote:
>> Hi Roman,
>>
>> Not sure if this is the problem, but I had similar troubles like  
>> this,
>> and to solve the issue, I saved the patch that contains the [declare]
>> in it, and then reopened it. I guess the issue here is that declare
>> really only operates when a patch is first opened from a file. (I
>> could be wrong on this...)
>>
> no, you are fully right and i also was aware of this. when testing  
> with
> binary files (as opposed to abstractions) it gets even trickier: it
> seems that pd holds a list for the namespace of binary classes,  
> whereas
> it seems, that abstractions are always searched in the filesystem.  
> which
> means, that when you once have successfully instantiated an object  
> from
> a binary class (for example [mrpeach/tcpserver]), then [tcpserver]  
> will
> instantiate as well (during the whole pd session). this means, that in
> certain cases it is not even sufficient to reload the patch in  
> order to
> realiably test [declare], but you would have to restart pd to get  
> rid of
> the registered classes.
>
> personally i dislike the fact, that binary single object classes  
> behave
> so differently from abstractions. this means, that patches using  
> [abs~]
> from extra/zexy might have worked well with the binary
> 'extra/zexy/abs~.pd_linux', but when it is replaced by
> 'extra/zexy/abs~.pd' the same patch probably doesn't work as it did
> before.

Yes, I agree.  This is the biggest thing that needs to be solved for  
complete namespace support.  I hope to work on this in a couple  
monthes...

.hc

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