[PD] [entry] changes

Roman Haefeli reduzierer at yahoo.de
Sun Oct 28 01:56:02 CEST 2007


On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 17:48 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> On Oct 27, 2007, at 11:59 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 12:02 +0200, Enrique Erne wrote:
> >> On Oct 27, 2007, at 5:56 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>> in order to work with pd-ext i had to rename some object in chat  
> >>>> and
> >>>> netpd-gui i.e. [l2s] to [zexy/list2symbol] or [netclient] to
> >>>> [maxlib/netclient].
> >>>> is renaming zexy , maxlib objects with namespace the correct/ 
> >>>> only way
> >>>> in pd-extended?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> hm, i didn't test myself, but since you are using pd-0.40  
> >>> (extended or
> >>> not) zexy and maxlib and stuff should be loaded by [declare]. i  
> >>> think
> >>> currently they are only loaded as externals, which means, for  
> >>> extended
> >>> we would need to add them as pathes as well (with '-stdpath'  
> >>> instead of
> >>> '-stdlib'). could you test, if that works? there is no way in  
> >>> renaming
> >>> all the objets.
> >>
> >> most of them could be replaced with list-abs :)
> >>
> >> i tested if [list2symbol] could create and reloaded a test patch with
> >>
> >> did not create:
> >> import zexy
> >> declare -path zexy
> >> declare -stdlib zexy
> >> declare -stdpath zexy
> >> declare -path
> >> /Applications/Pd-0.40.3-extended-20071026.app/Contents/Resources/ 
> >> extra/
> >> zexy
> >> declare -stdpath
> >> /Applications/Pd-0.40.3-extended-20071026.app/Contents/Resources/ 
> >> extra/
> >> zexy
> >>
> >> did create:
> >> import zexy/list2symbol
> >> declare -stdlib zexy/list2symbol
> >>
> >> on osx 10.3.9 (it's an old cat) with Pd-0.40.3-extended-20071026.app
> >>
> >>
> >> but again. i want to know the official way to load an external in
> >> pd-extended. who can answer this or where is it documented?
> >>
> >> the readme says "By default, most of the included libraries are  
> >> loaded
> >> at startup."
> >>
> >> if import is the way to go what about all helpfiles, do they need to
> >> get updated in order to work?
> >
> > in case of netpd, it's not worth to think about [import] at all. netpd
> > won't use it.
> 
> Any particular objection to [import]?  It's an external like any  
> other.  If you use list2symbol, etc. because it solves problems, I  

the main objection is that it is an external, that has an equivalent now
in plain pd. why use an external then? 

and i didn't know that it is simply an external, i thought it would only
work with pd-extended because of some adapted code there. is that wrong?

roman



		
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