[Pd] active and tot not right in pd-extended

[Martin Peach]

patco wrote:
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> */martin.peach at sympatico.ca/* a écrit :
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>     > Surely a text (or better: XML) file would be a
>     platform-independent way >of saving settings that doesn't require
>     calling a "sysadmin" for help.
>     Interesting perspective, could you elaborate this point of view?
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Imagine a text file that had the same name on all platforms.
A default copy could be in the main pd directory and another in the 
user's home directory would override the default if it existed.
It could contain stuff like:
<externals_path>C:\program files\pd\extra</externals_path>
<externals_path>C:\pd_040\extra</externals_path>
<help_path>C:\program files\pd\doc</help_path>
<lib>Gem</lib>
<midi_device>soundblaster</midi_device>
<real_time>off</real_time>
and so on. Basically everything that goes in a .pdrc file or command 
line but with tags.
Unrecognized tags would be silently ignored for backwards compatibility.
It's human readable and editable but pd could also write and read it.

Martin