[PD] puredata preferences ? ...

oliver oliver at klingt.org
Mon Jul 18 21:59:01 CEST 2016


On 2016-07-18 17:55, Miller Puckette wrote:
> It's in the "registry", under "Software\\Pd", in the "local machine" 
> area.
> 
> cheers
> Miller
> 


right. now i double and triple checked the registry ---> here's where i 
found it:
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-321511053-4116537890-2948523399-1001_Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Pd

seems like "puredata.info" has to update it's informations ;-)

i don't know how my pref settings ended up in a weird place like that, 
but anyway:
one of the great things about PD is that it doesn't NEED to be installed 
to run, and is therefore easily portable and shareable. writing a simple 
text-based thing like preferences into the abysmal registry feels 
counterproductive to me.

of course it's always possible to do it the good old batch way to 
precisely define midi inputs, sound cards etc.

what seemed to be nice about the "preferences" way is that i could 
define a soundcard by name, rather than by device number (which usually 
changed when hardware is changed).

is there any way to define the audio/midi driver by NAME in a batch 
startup script ?

again, i would like to stress that (maybe for future PD releases) i 
would much prefer to have preferences settings easily editable, like in 
a text-file somewhere in PD's main directory, just like the LINUX 
~/.pdsettings.

best

oliver




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