[PD] Loading Gui-Plugin in a Directory Other than in Standard Path

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On 01/25/2013 06:12 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
>> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>> To: pd-list at iem.at
>> Cc: 
>> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 4:01 PM
>> Subject: Re: [PD] Loading Gui-Plugin in a Directory Other than in Standard Path
>>
>> On 01/25/2013 03:31 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>>
>>>>  From: me.grimm <megrimm at gmail.com>
>>>>  To: pd_list Listserve <pd-list at iem.at>
>>>>  Cc: 
>>>>  Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 9:25 AM
>>>>  Subject: [PD] Loading Gui-Plugin in a Directory Other than in Standard 
>> Path
>>>>
>>>>  i tried declare like so:
>>>>
>>>>  [declare -stdpath /Users/megrimm/Desktop]
>>>>
>>>>  but that didn't work.
>>>>
>>>>  is there anyway to load gui plugins other than dropping them in
>>>>  ~/Library/Pd , etc ?
>>>
>>>  I don't know.
>>>
>>>  Hans-- is there a translation page that shows the new way to do
>>>  everything in Pd-extended that used to be done through the
>>>  path and startup dialogs?
>>>
>>>  I guess first of all-- is it possible to do everything on the current
>>>  release that could be done on the last, such as the behavior
>>>  in question above?
>>
>> You can set paths in the preferences still.
> 
> Ok, I didn't see that.
> 
>> I never tested whether GUI
>> plugins can be loaded from the user-set path because I didn't see a reason 
>> why
>> someone would want to do that.
> 
> By user-set, do you mean by setting the paths in Preferences from the
> "Edit" menu?
> 
> Also, is there a tcl variable that holds the paths that were set by a
> [declare], or one that holds the paths for the currently opened patches?
> 
> -Jonathan

Hmm, off the top of my head, I don't think you can get the canvas-local path
(ie. [path] or [declare -path]) in the GUI.

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