[PD] declare and abstraction (cont.)

[Miller Puckette]

On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 12:22:10PM +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> On Sam, 2014-01-25 at 19:24 -0800, Miller Puckette wrote:
> > Are you using readsf~ to read th soundfile?  Unfortunately, readsf~
> > doesn't search along the canvas's path (for complicated reasons)
> 
> Do those complicated reasons make it unlikely that this is ever going to
> change? Not that I consider it an important issue, I'm just curious.
> 
I'd rather fix it but I want to make a bunch of path-related fixes all in one
go (in particular, make abstractions and externs work reasoably so that an
abstraction further down a path doesn't override an extern, and alow
paths to work relaive to a calling path if one is inside an abstraction
in a dfferent directory.  All somehow without breaking compatibility - it's
a biggish project.

cheers
M

> >  and so needs 
> > to be sent an explicit path, like "../folder/a.wav", to find files outside 
> > the patch's directory.
> 
> Or if your abstractions know their relation to the main patch - for
> instance, if they are located in folder that is on the same level as the
> main patch - you just need to prepend the correct prefix to all incoming
> (relative!) paths - for instance '../'.
> 
> > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:05:39PM +0100, rolfm at dds.nl wrote:
> > > 
> > > sorry, i should be more precise about what i experience.
> > > 
> > > i'm using "../folder" to load soundfiles in my patch.
> > > while having a [declare -path .] in the main patch.
> > > 
> > > like i said in the first mail: this works when the patch is started
> > > up 'directly'.
> 
> Because the directory of your patch is then the start directory of Pd
> which is always included in the search path.
> 
> > > when i first start Pd and then open the patch with the menu-open
> > > Pd cannot find the directory.
> 
> Because then Pd is started from somewhere else and [readsf~] doesn't
> search in your patch's directory. It would be nice if [readsf~] would
> respect the [declare]ation in your main patch, though.
> 
> Roman
> 
> 
> 
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