[PD-dev] GUI plugins

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 30, 2010, at 2:28 PM, András Murányi wrote:

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> 2010/11/30 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
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> I cc'ed the Pd-list since I think this is relevent there.
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> On Nov 29, 2010, at 8:40 PM, András Murányi wrote:
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>> 2010/11/29 András Murányi <muranyia at gmail.com>
>> Hello HC,
>>
>> i was just trying to pick this up, but i'm kinda confused with the  
>> new startup order. It seems at the moment of  
>> load_startup_plugins(), which is by the end of pdtk_pd_startup() we  
>> don't yet have a functional ::pdwindow::verbose to print on the  
>> console. (Also, the '---done with main---' message at the end of  
>> main doesn't appear on my console.)
>>
>> Do you have an idea on this?
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> the "done with main" thing was just a debug message.  So the verbose  
> proc doesn't work in a plugin?
>
> it doesn't - and imo it's strange that it doesn't work at the end of  
> main{} either
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>> Plus (i couldn't go into it, but) it seems to me that startup  
>> plugins are run twice.
>>
>> It seems this is because both $::sys_searchpath and  
>> $::sys_staticpath contains ~/pd-externals (where i keep these  
>> plugins). Is it my error that i've added it once to my patch list  
>> or is it like this for everyone? And - do you think a mechanism to  
>> prevent loading a plugin more than once is necessary?
>>
>>
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> Sounds like you have ~/pd-externals added as a path via the  
> preferences.  Its now part of the hard-coded sys_staticpath.
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> Yes, that's the situation. I'm just worried that other people may  
> have 'double' entries too, which could cause all kinds of  
> weirdnesses in the future, not only with plugins. One of the  
> following methods could be implemented:
> a) When sys_searchpath and sys_staticpath are concatenated (or even  
> before) we filter out double entries
> b) We don't let the user add a folder to sys_searchpath which is  
> already in sys_staticpath
> c) We just make sure that load_startup_plugins{} doesn't load the  
> same plugin twice
> I'd recommend a)
>
> Andras

That is a good point.  I guess a) makes sense.

For c) I guess there should be some kind of array that stores the full  
path of a particular plugin once its been loaded, so then we can check  
and prevent double-loading.

.hc

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