[PD] declares in a new (sub)window

[Antoine Rousseau]

Actually currently the paths are searched as follows (for [declare -path]
paths):
- searchpaths declared locally in the abstraction* applied to the topmost
patch's directory*
- searchpaths declared in the containing abstraction* applied to the
topmost patch's directory*
- searchpaths declared in the grandparent abstraction* applied to the
topmost patch's directory*
- ...

I've proposed a patch that would search:
- searchpaths declared locally in the abstraction *applied to the
abstraction's directory then* to the topmost patch's directory
- searchpaths declared in the containing abstraction *applied to the
**containing
abstraction's directory then* to the topmost patch's directory
- searchpaths declared in the grandparent abstraction *applied to the
grandparent abstraction's directory then* to the topmost patch's directory
- ...

This would allow to harmlessly turn a top-level patch into an abstraction
(e.g located in another directory than caller's one), even if it uses
[declare]s.



Antoine Rousseau
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2017-01-05 16:14 GMT+01:00 IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>:

> On 2017-01-05 12:50, rolfm at dds.nl wrote:
> >
> > however, the libs which are declared in the main patch (when loaded) are
> > not available in this new window.
>
> the only way this makes sense to me is if with "libs" you mean "paths"
> (to abstractions).
> traditional libraries (binary files containing one or more objects) will
> be loaded into global namespace.
>
> with the "libdir" loader, the distinction has (unfortunately) become
> blurry.
>
> > is there a design reason for this?
>
> the paths are searched as follows:
> - searchpaths declared locally in the abstraction
> - searchpaths declared in the containing abstraction
> - searchpaths declared in the grandparent abstraction
> - ...
> - global searchpaths (preferences/startup-flags)
>
>
> in your example you have two top-level patches: "the big main window"
> and the newly created window.
> since they are unrelated, they don't share any paths declared in any of
> them.
>
> this is of course by design, and is inspired by module loading in other
> languages. (e.g. "import" in python)
>
> fgmsdr
> IOhannes
>
>
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