[PD] prevent opening of patches

[Ivica Ico Bukvic]

FWIW, the latest pd-l2ork release has a "-unique" flag (disabled by default)
so whenever you open a new file by double-clicking inside a file browser, it
will open it inside an existing instance (if any) or spawn a new instance
(if none). Spawning instances with -unique flag will force creation of a new
instance.

 

From: pd-list-bounces at iem.at [mailto:pd-list-bounces at iem.at] On Behalf Of
Marco Donnarumma
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 7:14 AM
To: pd-list at iem.at
Subject: Re: [PD] prevent opening of patches

 

That's useful, but up until recently you had to create a second instance of
Pd from the command line anyway, since OSX would show you the instance you
already had if you tried to open it from the operating system.

Or...have I missed the point? My friend and collaborator always needs two
Pd's, one for Gemnotes and one for audio processing, to play my musioc...and
we wrote a BASH script to launch the gemnotes one after the audio one was
set up.

 

well, personally most times, when developing, I need to create abstractions
and use global variables just to experiment with stuff. And if two instances
of Pd are opened when you don't want it, it can be very annoying.

Even worst scenario when you are teaching, student might open 4 patches at a
time, and as 4 Pd instances are launched, and it's a mess.

I always wondered whether we could have a flag in Pd GUI that set this kind
of configuration. Like, "always open a new Pd instance", "always use one Pd
only"... something like that. imho it would be useful.

cheers,
M

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