[PD] pd-extended 39-3 libraries load

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

The 10 items thing is a well known bug... An import help patch  
exists, but it doesn't seem to get installed properly.  That's a bug,  
it should be reported:

http://puredata.org/dev/bugtracker/

.hc

On Oct 11, 2007, at 5:30 PM, Luiz Naveda wrote:

> Hi Hans,
>
> The problem (for me) is not exactly loading extended libraries at
> start up. The problem starts when you try to modify the path slots in
> the file menu. After this I don't know what happens...Some libraries
> are missing...
>
> And I start to ask myself: Why ten? If I overwrite one slot I miss the
> overwrote library? I've checked the registry and the adresses were
> there...
>
> To complete, after rewrite the registry...nothing loads...and I have
> to reinstall PD, again
>
> I already checked the docs and the information is cloudy...for me.
> This affect directly the modularity and development of libraries.Is it
> possible to create a super-searching path (with subdirectory search)?
> So, if you want load something, just throw the folder there.
>
> [import] doesnt work, and it has no docs, until now
> I am using Pd version 0.39.3-extended-rc5
>
> Best
>
> Luiz
>
> On 10/10/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I haven't been able to reproduce this problem.  All of the  
>> libraries should
>> be loaded by default.  This is how it worked for me on the two WinXP
>> machines I've tested on.
>>
>> Perhaps there is something stuck in the registry that is causing  
>> problems.
>> Try deleting the Pd registry settings.  Delete this whole folder:
>>
>> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Pd
>>
>> Careful!  You can really screw things up if you delete the wrong  
>> thing.
>> Then try reinstalling using this version:
>>
>> http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/2007-10-10/Pd-0.39.3- 
>> extended-windowsxp-i386.exe
>>
>> If that doesn't work, please file a bug report with as much  
>> information as
>> possible.
>>
>> .hc
>>
>>
>> On Oct 10, 2007, at 5:05 AM, Anders Friberg wrote:
>>  I had for a long time similar struggles related to missing  
>> objects in
>> pd-extended.
>>  To use the colon as separator does not seem to work on Windows -  
>> which
>> makes sense since paths usually contain a colon as well.
>>  And if I want to use all libs in extended I have to list 51 paths  
>> since
>> that is the number of folders in /pd/extra/!
>>  And it is very confusing (especially for a beginner) when the  
>> help patches
>> in the browser do not work from the beginning.
>>  It would be wonderful to have a "working out-of-the-box" solution  
>> to this
>> problem. (and yes - I clicked the reg file)
>>  pd-extended is a great effort and if this issue can be solved it  
>> would
>> improve the usability enormously.
>>  /Anders
>>
>>  Max Neupert wrote:
>>  Am 07.10.2007 um 07:12 schrieb Luiz Naveda:
>>
>>
>>  Nowdays I have had a strange problem. I have my own library which
>> depends on some other libraris from PD extended. When I have to
>> install it in other computers, I put my folders in 2 of the 10 slot-
>> path but normally it misses 3 or 4 other libraries, so I start to
>> look for the missing objects and rewrite all missing libraries in
>> the 10 slots...
>>
>>  to add more entries you may use the : as a separator as described  
>> here:
>>
>> http://puredata.org/docs/tutorials/TipsAndTricks#add-more-entries-to-
>> the-path-and-library-dialogs
>>
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