[PD] Pd documents path proposal

Alexandre Torres Porres porres at gmail.com
Wed Aug 2 02:15:35 CEST 2017


Second report:

- I don't know what "disabling" the Pd Documents folder is supposed to do,
but I just get an error


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2017-08-01 21:12 GMT-03:00 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>:

> Ok, first bug report:
>
> - if I choose a different *Externals install Directory* other than the
> "externals" subfolder (say "libs" for example) and hit ok, it still creates
> an "externals" subdirectory and adds it to the search path, whereas "libs"
> is not added! Though deken still asks me to download to "libs". As I see,
> it shouldn't create "externals" nor add it to the path, and then add "libs"
> to the path.
>
> 2017-08-01 20:59 GMT-03:00 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>:
>
>> Cool, I still don't see the added folder in the help browser, but that's
>> because of another issue that's being solved in parallel, right?
>>
>> 2017-08-01 20:49 GMT-03:00 Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> A macOS test build with the docspath (Pd Documents directory) is
>>> available, look for Pd-0.48.0-test6-docspath.app.zip:
>>> http://docs.danomatika.com/pdbuilds/
>>>
>>> On Jul 31, 2017, at 1:20 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Here's the PR and relevant details: https://github.com/pu
>>> re-data/pure-data/pull/152
>>>
>>> On Jul 31, 2017, at 2:32 AM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Here is my *working* proposal for beginner-friendliness: the Pd
>>> Documents directory. Also includes deken-workingness.
>>>
>>> Thanks to Miller for the new "add-to-path" message.
>>>
>>> Video demo: https://youtu.be/YWMnynyIeoc
>>>
>>> The documents path is an optional beginner-friendly location for patches
>>> and externals and defaults to USERHOME/Documents/Pd. If the docs path is
>>> not set when Pd is started, the user is prompted about creating it and it
>>> can be changed or disabled in the Path preferences dialog. If the user hits
>>> Cancel, the docs path functionality is disabled. A subdirectory for
>>> externals is also created and is set as the deken install directory. Once
>>> set, the docs path becomes the preferred initial directory for file dialogs
>>> to help those new to filesystem hierarchy.
>>>
>>> Included in this work: deken can now optionally add external directories
>>> to the user search paths via a popup after download.
>>>
>>> *mic drop*
>>>
>>> sleep
>>>
>>>
>>> --------
>>> Dan Wilcox
>>> @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika>
>>> danomatika.com
>>> robotcowboy.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --------
>>> Dan Wilcox
>>> @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika>
>>> danomatika.com
>>> robotcowboy.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
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