[PD] Load Libraries or Declare Paths via Gui Plugin

[me.grimm]

yeah i was doing something like:

pd_connect::pdsend "pd path-dialog 1 0 +/path/to/foo"
pd_connect::pdsend "pd startup-dialog 0 + +py +Gem"

but thought there might be a better way.

I will look at your [punish]...

thanks!
m

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 3:02 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:

> >
> > me.grimm:
> >> > Hello,
> >> >
> >> > I feel like this came up before but I failed to find it.
>
> maybe this?
> https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-dev/2016-04/020663.html
>
> >> >
> >> > Can I load a lib or declare a path via tcl/tk gui plugin? If so how
> might
> >> > this happen?
>
> On 06/07/2016 08:33 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> > You'd load Tcl libs via the standard Tcl ways.  I don't think you
> > could load a Pd lib, if that's what you mean.
>
> what i ended up doing for [punish] is to send a "declare -lib
> /full/path/to/my/library" message to one of the hidden canvases created
> by Pd.
>
> this works well so far, but exploits a few things:
> - the existence of hidden canvases with fixed names (thanks jonathan for
> the hint)
> - the fact that library loading in a canvas (as opposed to adding
> search-paths) works globally.
>
> luckily for me i only need to load a single external per gui-plugin (no
> need to care about "path"s)
>
> anyhow, this is exploiting some implementation detail of Pd and i'd very
> much prefer it, if the "pd" receiver would accept "declare" messages
> with which to add searchpaths and load libraries globally (in the same
> fashion as adding "-lib foo -path bar" to the startup flags)
>
>
> gdsar
> IOhannes
>
>
> [punish] https://git.iem.at/pd-gui/punish/
>
>
>
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