[PD] Re: Gaining access to /usr/local/lib/pd/extra in the Finder?

[James Tittle II]

On Apr 8, 2004, at 4:39 AM, guenter geiger wrote:
> A Mac user suggested that it would be more "mac like" to put the whole
> Pd distribution into one single Application directory instead of
> using the unix file system standard.
>
> I think technically it is feasable, what do you think about producing
> the Mac packages that way ?

hey guenter,

...yeh, not only desirably and technically feasable, but already done 
several times over ;-)  I came up with "pd++.app" ( 
http://homepage.mac.com/tigital ) because pd needed to be correctly 
registered with the window manager in order to get window events 
working when using Gem (think dragging the gemwin around, grabbing the 
mouse/keyboard)...it also has a popup text entry to allow entry of 
flags at startup (but this seems to bork the .pdrc 
functionality)...anyway, it was just a sketch to get the gem stuff 
correct...

...more promising is stuff like uPDated, which is a wrapped up version 
of impd ( http://pure-data.iem.at/Members/gerard/uPDated ) using a 
script building application called Platypus...this is really the way to 
go, I think, because it now allows tcl/tk/wish shell to be bundle 
inside also, so you really have a "place anywhere" double clickable 
application...well, ya still need to have the documentation/example 
patches somewhere...

...I plan on making a standalone app the "platypus" way, kinda like a 
"tigital distro", with gem and stuff I use...

l8r,
jamie