[PD] loading freeframe-objects with Gem/Pd-extended (was Re: Latest Pd-extended experiences)

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

David Powers wrote:
> Just to be clear and follow up, some of this was caused because I was
> not only missing randomF, but also tripleRand (replacing with
> abstractions in my extra directory was easiest solution.) That's
> cleared up, and as a whole my monster Vj patch does run. (And the font

ya, i noticed that most problems have been solved when reading your
other mail after sending my reply....

> issue isn't a big deal, in fact arial never worked "out of the box"
> anyway you had to copy the font over somewhere).

fonts are searched using the pd-paths (as, to my knowledge, is
documented in the help-files...); so you can just add "-path
C:/windoze/fonts" (or whatever) to give you direct access to all
installed truetype-fonts)

> 
> The [pix_freeframe] problem, however, seems to be the only real
> remaining problem. Note that these worked with my previous pd+Gem
> combo. The only thing that has changed is my version of PD. But the
> plugins just won't load now. I'm using the identical patch except for
> replaced objects. So would I want to replace this Gem with some other
> one, wait for a new pd-extended, or what? Adding those plugins
> certainly gives Gem a nice extra range of pix manipulation abilities,
> though not essential to my work.


yes, that's the point of having a freeframe-loader available....

anyhow, could you try replacing the current Gem.dll with an older one
(where you know that it worked) and report back?
make sure you do have backups though...


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