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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Sep 14, 2006, at 1:23 PM, <martin.peach at sympatico.ca> wrote:

>
>> To many Pd users, any text config file will be arcane.  How often to
>> you directly edit text files for your Mail program?  Your word
>> processor?  Any GUI app?  Pd is a GUI-based program, any kind of
>> config editing should be possible via the GUI.  Then we would have to
>> think about the underlying storage format.
>
> Of course. The configuration is usually done in the GUI. In Pd the  
> GUI is implemented in tcl/tk. Reading and writing the configuration  
> is done by c code that's platform-specific. I think it makes more  
> sense if that code works with human-readable text files ('simple'  
> xml is human-readable). Maybe the path to the config file would be  
> different according to platform but the file format doesn't need to  
> be different.
> Isn't OSX already using xml for its own config files?

Unfortunately Apple uses a binary format for .plists now.  The XML  
plists still work too.

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