[PD] relative pathes: problems with [open(-message to pd

[Chris McCormick]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 07:05:59PM +0200, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 10:14 +0800, Chris McCormick wrote: 
> > On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 11:20:01PM +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 10:04 +0100, Steffen wrote:
> > > > On 22/03/2007, at 23.41, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > When opening patches by sending messages to pd, the path is  
> > > > > relative to
> > > > > pd's startup-location. when loading other files (text-, audio-,
> > > 
> > > it would be nice to hear more voices. does anything speak _for_
> > > 'relative to start-up location'?
> > 
> > Yep. If I understand your meaning correctly, 'relative to start-up
> > location' is useful in situations where you are building an
> > application that uses Pd at it's core. You want the patches to start
> 
> hm.... i think i see, what you mean. whenever a set of patches and/or
> externals is packed together with a startup-file (bash-script for unix,
> bat-file for windows), it seems to make sense to specify pathes relative
> to the start-up location for [open(-message. i say 'it seems', because -
> afaict - this 'relativity' to start-up in the [open(-message is never
> really used. when you open the patches directly from the script using
> the '-open' option, you don't need the [open(-message in pd it-self. and
> when you afterwards open other patches from the main-patch, you could
> easily open them with pathes relative to the patch. as far as i can see
> it, there is still no case, where you really need 'relative to
> start-up'. 
> if i missed your point here, can you please elaborate a bit more, why
> Ergate _does_ need 'relative to start-up' for [open(-message?

Actually, I think you're correct. I think I can specify the relative
paths from the .bat or .py launcher file with the -open flag and never
have to have an open message inside Pd. After that, once the program is
launched, I want the paths to all be relative to already loaded patches,
not the launch location. I will do more testing next week when I have
some spare time and let you know.

Best,

Chris.

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