[PD] multiple pd versions and settings on OS X

[Rich E]

Ah, perfect.  I get my cake and even get to eat it!  Thanks, Hans.

rich

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>wrote:

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> On Mac OS X, you can stick a prefs plist into the Pd-extended.app and then
> it'll always ignore all other prefs.  Instead the Pd-extended.app, just copy
> /Applications/Pd-extended.app/Contents/org.puredata.pd.default.plist to
> /Applications/Pd-extended.app/Contents/org.puredata.pd.plist
>
> .hc
>
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> On Nov 16, 2009, at 5:35 PM, Rich E wrote:
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>  Hi,
>>
>> I've been using several different versions of pd in OS X: Pd-extended
>> (packaged), Pd-vanilla (packaged), and pd-gui-rewrite (compiled).  Every
>> time I use vanilla or gui-rewrite, I need to set and save the audio
>> settings, which writes a plist settings file to ~/Library/Preferences/.
>>  Then, when I start Pd-extended, it doesn't want to read the plist file
>> included with it, but reads this other 'local' one.
>>
>> It would be great if there was some way to tell pd which plist file to
>> load.  I see there is an option '-noprefs', how about an open '-prefs FILE'?
>>  I know you could do this with a bash script or something similar, but that
>> just seems messy for OS X.  I was working on this in python/ubuntu, but it
>> was always cumbersome at best.
>>
>> Rich
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