[PD-dev] path for embedded examples

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Mon Apr 12 09:33:32 CEST 2010


On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 11:01:22PM +0200, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 13:25 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> > Part of the idea of a libdir is to also include examples.  Currently,  
> > this is done using an 'examples' subfolder.  The problem with that is  
> > the example patches won't automatically find the objects from the  
> > libdir that they are embedded in. So I'm wondering what the best way  
> > to handle this is.  Here are a couple ideas:
> > 
> > - require [declare -path ..] for all example patches (works on any  
> > branch of Pd)
> > 
> > - instead of 'examples' folder, use mypatch-example.pd in the main dir  
> > of the libdir (works without extra tricks)
> > 
> > - use [import mylib] for all example patches (works even when the  
> > example patch is saved elsewhere)
> 
> - use [declare -stdpath extra/mylib] for all example patches (works on
> any branch of Pd and works even when the example patch is saved
> elsewhere)

I think, this doesn't work if "mylib" isn't installed or isn't installed in
"extra". 

Ciao
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 Frank Barknecht            Do You RjDj.me?          _ ______footils.org__




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