[PD] macosx .pdrc inside PD.app

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Fri Oct 7 19:43:42 CEST 2005


On Oct 3, 2005, at 6:53 AM, Lorenz Schori wrote:

> Am 15.09.2005 um 16:52 schrieb Hans-Christoph Steiner:
>> I think the easiest thing to do is to create a org.puredata.pd.plist,  
>> which is the file that the preferences system saves to.  Then you  
>> instruct users to copy that file to ~/Library/Preferences.
>
> there is a command line utility for writing preference values:  
> defaults. (see man defaults). for quickly inspect what is contained in  
> the pd prefs just type the following command into terminal:
>
> defaults read org.puredata.pd
>
> package distributors could then distribute a script which set the  
> appropriate defaults instead of providing a plist which will overwrite  
> the preferences of the user

Thanks, that's a good idea.  I'll have to try that.  Its on the TODO  
list.

.hc

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