.pdrc for Windows WAS: Re: [PD] pd 0.37.1 Windows installer release candidate
Frank Barknecht
fbar at footils.org
Fri Apr 2 18:37:35 CEST 2004
Hallo,
Martin Peach hat gesagt: // Martin Peach wrote:
> I see no reason why the handler for your dialog couldn't write out
> a pd.bat file when the user clicks OK or Apply.
Why a .bat file? This feels crude in my eyes. The natural thing would
be, to start using a real config file instead of a list of command
line options in a file or even a .bat file. With a .bat or .sh script
you cannot start the Pd binary itself anymore using set options, with
a command list, you cannot include the "-rcfile" command option
because that would loop if used in pdrc.
A real config file (or registry or whatever) would even allow comments
like in the old days of Pd 0.31 or so.
Maybe something like the .ini-file format, which is common on both Win and
Unix (don't know Mac) would be appropriate, maybe extended by comments
[Audio]
System: jack
Channels: 4
[Paths]
path1="/usr/lib/pd:/home/fbar/pd/"
path2="/usr/lib/flext/"
Of course the "#"- and "="-format would be even more powerful:
# which audiosystem to use
audiosystem = asio
# add paths:
paths = /usr/lib/pd
# append another path
paths = $(paths):/home/pd
libs = iemlib1:iemlib2
# use this only sometimes:
# libs = $(libs):Gem
But a .bat or .sh file is not platform independent and thus not
appropriate in the long run IMO.
ciao
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