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

[Chuckk Hubbard]

For probably a year I couldn't get the startup or path dialogs to come
up.  I'd select them on the menu and nothing would happen.  I think it
went through three different versions of Pd.  I wasn't that concerned,
I just edited the registry directly.
I checked, and the dialogs are working fine as of now.

-Chuckk

On 9/14/06, David Powers <cyborgk at gmail.com> wrote:
> You have a point there. The Preferences panes often don't work at all
> correctly, I'm not really sure why. For example, I added a flag in
> startups, but then the flag stayed on afterwards, until I edited the
> registry.
>
> There's also a limit in the amount of libraries and directories you
> can add, which is a SERIOUS shortcoming.
>
> However, this still leaves the problem of having two PD's installed at
> once. Any suggestions on how that should be done? The reason I had to
> install two PD's, is I'm using a brand new experimental version of
> Gem, that crashes PD-extended. But help fiiles don't work for me in
> Miller's PD, so every time I want to check a help file, I open
> PD-extended and use that browser. I am essentially using Miller's PD,
> with all the extended stuff dumped into the extra section of it, as
> Patco suggested.
>
> Anyway, finally, even though I edited the registry by guessing, I'm
> still mostly clueless what the entries do. Any chance of getting it
> documented? Is it documented in some other form I just don't realize?
>
> ~David
>
> On 9/14/06, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>
>
> > Even better would be to ignore how the data is stored, since that
> > works fine regardless of anyone's feelings for the registry.
> > Instead, improve the Preference Panes so that you don't have to
> > manually edit the configs.  Then everyone on all platforms will benefit.
> >
> > .hc
> >
> > >
> > > ~David
> > >
> > > On 9/13/06, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On Sep 4, 2006, at 2:58 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > Hallo,
> > >> > carmen hat gesagt: // carmen wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> >> i added a patch to the tracker a while back for pd.ini support on
> > >> >> windows. easier than a batch file since its the same format
> > >> as .pdrc
> > >> >> on 'n[iu]x, and obviously easier than using an installer to add
> > >> >> something to the registry.
> > >> >
> > >> > I like that. The only Windows machines I have access to are at work
> > >> > and there I'm not enabled to touch the registry anyways. Also I
> > >> don't
> > >> > know many Windows users who are comfortable with the registry. I
> > >> don't
> > >> > know many people at all who know their way around the registry.
> > >>
> > >> Like it or not (I don't), the registry is the Windows-native way of
> > >> managing settings.  I think we should try to be as native as possible
> > >> on each platform, so on Windows that means using the registry.  For
> > >> what Pd uses the registry for, its really not that scary, and its
> > >> pretty straightforward to manage.
> > >>
> > >> .hc
> > >>
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