[PD] pd 0.43 report

[Mirko Maier]

hi hans-christoph,

> > I've found some deviations from previous pd versions in pd 0.43
> (extended) (on Win XP):
> > 
> > - in previous versions, with the message "pd open [patch.pd] [folder]/;"
> you could open a patch in a subfolder, which doesn't work in pd 0.43
> 
> Can you provide an example patch of this?  What are the details of
> [folder]?

i have a subfolder "tools", and there is e.g. the patch "mytool.pd". in my main patch, in pd 0.42 i can send the message "; pd open mytool.pd tools/", then "mytool.pd" opens. but doesn't work in pd 0.43


> > - dynamic patching: i have this message: 
> > 
> > "editmode 1, mouse 12526 541 0 0, motion 12526 2000 0, mouseup 12526
> 2000 0 0, mouse 21 -500 0 0, mouseup 250000 1999 0 0, cut, mouse 12526 2000 0
> 0, motion 12526 541 0, mouseup 100 100 0 0"
> > 
> > (sent to a pd-window). in pd 0.43 i need to divide the message in two
> parts:
> > 
> > "editmode 1, mouse 12526 541 0 0, motion 12526 2000 0, mouseup 12526
> 2000 0 0"
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > "mouse 21 -500 0 0, mouseup 250000 1999 0 0, cut, mouse 12526 2000 0 0,
> motion 12526 541 0, mouseup 100 100 0 0"
> > 
> > and i need a delay of at least 4ms between both actions that it works
> properly.
> 
> Try removing the 'motion' messages, the 'mouseup' message should be enough
> to register a click.  Otherwise, can you post an example patch?

no doesn't work without "motion". i admit, this might be a special case. the problem is, i want to delete the whole subwindow, but in the window there is besides other things the object "image". When deleting "image" several times, it ultimatively crashes. that's why i make this dynamic hack, moving the image far away, deleting everything else and then move the image back to its original place.
anyway, pd 0.42 and pd 0.43 obviously have different behaviour there.

> > - i regret that there's no "path" menu anymore / the "path" function in
> the preferences doesn't work when entering a path name with spaces (then,
> stuff like vslider doesn't work anymore). i have a path including spaces,
> therefore the "path"-function was very helpful.
> 
> You can still use -path command line flags, or manually edit the registry
> to add global paths in the old style.  Or you can open up File ->
> Message... and enter:
> 
> pd start-path-dialog
> 
> Or in a patch: [;pd start-path-dialog(

yeah, but with paths including spaces it's quite a problem then. why not keeping the old comfortable way? is there any harm about it?

> > - as already posted yesterday, "key" doesn't detect the tabulator key
> anymore (unfortunately i use this key in my patches very often)
> 
> This was happening on all platforms, I think.  I attached a patch that
> fixes it for me, and will be in upcoming nightly builds.

thanks.

best
mirko

> 
> .hc
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