[PD-dev] -guiport vs other arguments

[Miller Puckette]

Hmm, works fr me...  (from wish this time...)

%  exec -- /home/msp/pd/bin/pd  -stderr -guiport  6000 &
2320
% connecting stream socket: Connection refused (111)


On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:35:10AM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> I mean if I exec pd from Tcl with more arguments than just "-guiport  
> 5600", I get the output of -help and then pd quits.   so say like this:
> 
> exec -- $pd_exec -stderr -guiport $portnumber &
> 
> .hc
> 
> On Jan 12, 2009, at 7:27 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
> 
> >Hmm, over here it does this:
> >
> >[msp at slash src]$ pd -guiport 5600
> >connecting stream socket: Connection refused (111)
> >[msp at slash src]$
> >
> >This seems correct, since there wasn't anybody listening on port 5600.
> >cheers
> >Miller
> >
> >On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 07:15:48PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>So I have startup in both directions working,  ('pd.tk' starts 'pd',
> >>and 'pd' starts 'pd.tk').  This means you can choose which wish shell
> >>to use on any platform, and it'll use that one.  Here's how:
> >>
> >>wish /path/to/pd.tk
> >>
> >>This means you can easily use any 'wish' and run Pd with it. It also
> >>makes it possible on Mac OS X to run pd in the Pd.app Aqua GUI, or  
> >>run
> >>it in the wish X11 GUI.   Hopefully it makes the code cleaner too,
> >>much fewer #ifdefs.
> >>
> >>Now I have a question: it seems that if I start 'pd' with -guiport,
> >>then it seems to ignore any other command line arguments and dumps  
> >>the
> >>'-help' text.  Any reason why it shouldn't be possible to use - 
> >>guiport
> >>with all the rest of the options?  Anyone know how to do this? :D
> >>
> >>.hc
> >>
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