[PD] Loading libs and path (w32) Was:Re: Trying to get GEM going on Pd Vanilla / Win10
Björn Eriksson
miulew at gmail.com
Fri Aug 5 13:20:17 CEST 2016
Thanks for the practical tips! Appreciated!
It´s also good to be able to change the font and fontsize to a good windows
standard, also another thing that was annoying when switching from Pd
Extended to Pd Vanilla overcome! Consolas 12 seems like a good choice!
I think upon uninstall of Pd the extra folders are left untouched, so I
think I will continue to have extra libraries there (pd/extra). Sometimes I
read upon the importance of using /user/AppData/Roaming/Pd or
Program/Common Files/Pd . How to think and act upon these considerations? I
bet this been discussed alot before, maybe a new thread if not? Of course
it is platform dependant and now here I am speaking windows considerations.
Here is pd -help list btw:
C:\pd\bin>pd -help
usage: pd [-flags] [file]...
audio configuration flags:
-r <n> -- specify sample rate
-audioindev ... -- audio in devices; e.g., "1,3" for first and third
-audiooutdev ... -- audio out devices (same)
-audiodev ... -- specify input and output together
-audioaddindev -- add an audio input device by name
-audioaddoutdev -- add an audio output device by name
-audioadddev -- add an audio input and output device by name
-inchannels ... -- audio input channels (by device, like "2" or "16,8")
-outchannels ... -- number of audio out channels (same)
-channels ... -- specify both input and output channels
-audiobuf <n> -- specify size of audio buffer in msec
-blocksize <n> -- specify audio I/O block size in sample frames
-sleepgrain <n> -- specify number of milliseconds to sleep when idle
-nodac -- suppress audio output
-noadc -- suppress audio input
-noaudio -- suppress audio input and output (-nosound is synonym)
-callback -- use callbacks if possible
-nocallback -- use polling-mode (true by default)
-listdev -- list audio and MIDI devices
-asio -- use ASIO audio driver (via Portaudio)
-pa -- synonym for -asio
-mmio -- use MMIO audio API (default for Windows)
(default audio API for this platform: MMIO)
MIDI configuration flags:
-midiindev ... -- midi in device list; e.g., "1,3" for first and third
-midioutdev ... -- midi out device list, same format
-mididev ... -- specify -midioutdev and -midiindev together
-midiaddindev -- add a MIDI input device by name
-midiaddoutdev -- add a MIDI output device by name
-midiadddev -- add a MIDI input and output device by name
-nomidiin -- suppress MIDI input
-nomidiout -- suppress MIDI output
-nomidi -- suppress MIDI input and output
other flags:
-path <path> -- add to file search path
-nostdpath -- don't search standard ("extra") directory
-stdpath -- search standard directory (true by default)
-helppath <path> -- add to help file search path
-open <file> -- open file(s) on startup
-lib <file> -- load object library(s)
-font-size <n> -- specify default font size in points
-font-face <name> -- specify default font
-font-weight <name>-- specify default font weight (normal or bold)
-verbose -- extra printout on startup and when searching for files
-noverbose -- no extra printout
-version -- don't run Pd; just print out which version it is
-d <n> -- specify debug level
-loadbang -- do not suppress all loadbangs (true by default)
-noloadbang -- suppress all loadbangs
-stderr -- send printout to standard error instead of GUI
-nostderr -- send printout to GUI instead of standard error (true by
default)
-gui -- start GUI (true by default)
-nogui -- suppress starting the GUI
-guiport <n> -- connect to pre-existing GUI over port <n>
-guicmd "cmd..." -- start alternatve GUI program (e.g., remote via ssh)
-send "msg..." -- send a message at startup, after patches are loaded
-prefs -- load preferences on startup (true by default)
-noprefs -- suppress loading preferences on startup
-sleep -- sleep when idle, don't spin (true by default)
-nosleep -- spin, don't sleep (may lower latency on multi-CPUs)
-schedlib <file> -- plug in external scheduler
-extraflags <s> -- string argument to send schedlib
-batch -- run off-line as a batch process
-nobatch -- run interactively (true by default)
-autopatch -- enable auto-connecting new from selected objects (true
by default)
-noautopatch -- defeat auto-patching new from selected objects
-compatibility <f> -- set back-compatibility to version <f>
/Björn Eriksson
On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 10:01 PM, Lucas Cordiviola <lucarda27 at hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Björn, David:
>
> There's a good windows way to manage loading libs and path.
>
> Mainly is a .cmd file that is used to start pd with whatever options.
>
> With this folder structure:
>
> Some parent folder (A)
>
> A/externals
>
> A/pd
>
> A/x.cmd
>
> (this folder struc keeps things in a modular way, so when the next Pd is
> released you can easily delete and replace.)
>
> the .cmd file is just a text (saved as .cmd) that you can edit for
> whatever, it must be only one line and separeted with space (and also a TAB
> for better spacing) for example:
>
> %CD%\pd\bin\pd -noprefs -path %CD%\externals\cyclone -lib
> %CD%\externals\zexy -path %CD%\externals\mrpeach
>
> %CD% passes the full path, so you can use it in a USB stick.
>
>
> For an up-to-date list of startupflags browse the explorer to the pd/bin
> dir an do Shift-right-click in the white space until you get the option
> “open command window here” there type “pd -help” without “ “.
>
> Try :
>
> -font-face Consolas -font-weight normal -font-size 12
>
> Consolas is a system font since win vista, it fits well in the boxes.
>
>
> Salutti,
> Lucarda
>
>
> Mensaje telepatico asistido por maquinas.
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Pd-list <pd-list-bounces at lists.iem.at> on behalf of Björn
> Eriksson <miulew at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 4, 2016 12:23 PM
> *To:* Pd-List
> *Subject:* Re: [PD] Trying to get GEM going on Pd Vanilla / Win10
>
> Thanks for clarifications IOhannes!
> I would really prefer to not declare anything with specific path
> references like this one with the Gem-0.93.3 folder. I understand it will
> induce problems if shared and if drives/sticks changes places, OS´s. The
> reason the versioned folder got there was due to the suggestion from Oliver
> to unzip all Gem.zip into the "extra" folder, which I did and got it there.
> I also tried to set path preferences (from menu - File-Preference-Path,
> also File-Preference-Startup, but it seems that neither of them are
> remembered after restart of Pd.
>
> Will try to rename the versioned folder to just Gem.... instead of
> Gem-0.93.9 so to get rid of the dependecies. I hope it will work like that.
>
> Guess I was happy that Gem finally started to work on this machine I am
> at, so didn´t see the fatalities of the versioned folder. (why is it anyway
> included in the zip-file if it causes this instabilties?)
>
> All the best!
> Björn Eriksson
>
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 1:25 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
> wrote:
>
>> On 2016-08-04 03:23, Björn Eriksson wrote:
>> > In the patch I do have to [declare -lib /Gem-0.93.3/Gem] or with direct
>> > path where Gem is installed, on my external harddrive that is [declare
>> -lib
>> > G:/pd/extra/Gem-0.93.3/Gem].
>>
>> well, that sounds like a bad layout.
>> the point of using [declare] is to create patches with dependency
>> information that is platform independent and sharable.
>>
>> for instance it makes little sense to use [declare -lib
>> D:\bjoern\Pd-Projects\Gem-0.89\Gem]: while it might work, the patch will
>> break as soon as you give it away (or port it to another computer, that
>> is not running windows ANDOR has a cd-drive occupying the "D:" letter
>> rather than yoiur USB-stick ANDOR has a different filesystem layout
>> ANDOR ...
>>
>> sp, if you put your externals into extra/, then you shouldn't use
>> version-prefixes.
>> if you do want to organise the directories the way you like, use the
>> preferences to add additional paths.
>>
>> e.g. extracting Gem to D:\bjoern\Pd-Projects\Gem-0.89\Gem\ you could add
>> "D:\bjoern\Pd-Projects\Gem-0.89\" to your search-paths (in the
>> Pd-preferences) and then use [declare -lib Gem] in your patch.
>> then, if you want to migrate the patch to another machine, install Gem
>> to /home/bobby/projects/2018/external-pool/Gem/ and add
>> "/home/bobby/projects/2018/external-pool" to your Pd-preferences.
>> then run your patch.
>> without any modifications!
>>
>>
>> fgasdmr
>> IOhannes
>>
>>
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