[PD] [PD-announce] Pd-extended 0.43.4 released!

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On 01/30/2013 08:11 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> 
>> On 30/01/2013 13:46, Nicolas Montgermont wrote:
>>> and a few ideas: - one menu with all the preferences - possibility to
>>> choose between different config file.
>>> 
>>> maybe these are doable as gui plugins?
> 
> yes for the "one menu with all preferences".
> 
> unlikely for "config file chooser": the problem here is, that once you 
> have started Pd, it's configuration will already be active, and you 
> cannot undo that (e.g. you cannot unload libraries). the only thing that
> could be done (and probably as a GUI-plugin) would be: "save this config
> as" and "restore chosen saveconfig to be used as the default on next
> startup"

Yeah, you'd have to do it in the default/restart method IOhannes outlined
above. Here's how:

* store the config files each with a unique name
* make the config chooser UI copy the chosen uniquely-named config file to
the default config faile name
* restart and pd will find the newly copied config file in the default location

.hc