[PD] Manually add a library to load at startup (bug ??)

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Sat Feb 2 01:33:09 CET 2013


On 02/01/2013 06:00 PM, IOhannes zmölnig wrote:
> On 02/01/2013 06:56 PM, Pierre Massat wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm on my Pi again, running Pd-vanilla 0.43.2 (from the debian repos).
>> When I add the zexy library to the startup list in the GUI, it loads fine.
>> However, when i simply add it in the .pdsettings file ("loadlib : zexy"),
>> it won't load (although it appears in the startup list of the GUI) !
>>
>> Is there something i don't get about how to use .pdsettings ? Or is this a
>> bug (and if yes, is it fixed in 0.44) ?
> 
> 
> you have to adjust the "noloadlib" (number of libs to load) setting as well.
> better use the GUI to add a new library and save the settings.

Even better would be to use [declare -lib zexy] in any patch that needs zexy.
 Then it'll work everywhere without editing tricks, you'll know what libs your
patches need, and all sorts of other benefits.

You can also 'apt-get install puredata-import' to use [import zexy].

.hc



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