[PD] Is this considered normal operation?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

You can use the library prefix to guarantee that it uses the class  
that you want.  In the Pd-extended builds, everything is arranged  
like this: [mylibrary/myobject]

.hc

On Sep 6, 2006, at 11:18 AM, Mike McGonagle wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I recently returned to using Pure Data, and in trying to consolidate
> some of the things that I am doing, I started to create a directory
> structure of my abstractions and externals. One thing that I noticed
> (by accident) is that once I have loaded an external using the full
> directory name, it is then subsequently available by just referencing
> the name of the external, without the full directory name.
>
> Is this something that is intentional? Is this something that can be
> used to, in effect, create a "library" of externals for various
> different platforms? I can see this working by loading all the
> necessary externals by their full directory paths, and then the *.pd
> files that use those externals would just call it by the name of the
> external.
>
> How can name clashes be prevented? Can that only be stopped by giving
> the full directory path to the external?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
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