[PD-dev] 0.43 omission: 'set-startup' and 'set-path'

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Yeah, I added the "pd set-startup", etc. stuff to m_glob.c and  
s_path.c.  Regardless of the startup procedure, I think pd-gui should  
be able to request state from pd so it can stay in sync.  A dialog  
shouldn't be required to get this info.  This is akin to IOhannes'  
idea that pd-gui's state should be settable by pd at any point while  
running.

Then it makes sense to reuse the same procedure for getting the state  
in the startup procedure, rather than having a custom method for only  
the startup procedure.

.hc

On Jul 16, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:

> Hi Hans --
>
> the "vwait" line didn't seem correct to me (could return right after
> Pd says to clear pd_path, before the other messages bubble up to  
> append
> the various directories to it).
>
> I ended up fixing Pd to volunteer the path and startup stuff before  
> sending
> pdtk_pd_startup so that none of the tcl side of things should be  
> needed
> any longer.  OTOH if you were planning to send "pd set-startup" etc at
> some later point in the tcl code, this would need to be supported in  
> Pd...(?)
>
> cheers
> Miller
>
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 03:58:24PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> wrote:
>>
>> Hey Miller,
>>
>> I just noticed that you left out a key part of pd-gui-rewrite in
>> 0.43.  There is the 'set-startup' and 'set-path' messages which  
>> allows
>> pd-gui to get the state of those things without having to open the
>> respective preference dialog panels. The changes are in m_glob.c and
>> s_path.c, as well as these lines in pd-gui.tcl:
>>
>>    pdsend "pd set-startup" ;# get ::startup_libraries
>> and ::startup_flags lists
>>    pdsend "pd set-path"    ;# get the ::pd_path list
>>    vwait ::pd_path ;# wait for 'pd' to respond
>>
>> .hc
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