[PD] multiple instances of a patch forbidden in 0.49, why?

IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig at iem.at
Mon Sep 24 15:45:28 CEST 2018


On 2018-09-24 14:55, Max wrote:
> On 24.09.2018 14:23, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>> On 2018-09-24 14:11, Max wrote:
>>> On 24.09.2018 13:01, Dan Wilcox wrote:
>>>> you can always double click the directory itself and launch things via
>>>> the file explorer if you want multiples from there
>>>
>>> I think there is no consistent cross-platform behavior in this regard.
>>> While on MacOS this will open in the same Pd instance, Linux will open
>>> another Pd to open the file with (Windows too IIRC).
>>
>> at least with the Debian packages, Pd will open the patch in an already
>> running instance (if possible).
>> (other distros might have the file-associations wrong;
>> if you install Pd from source, there are not file-associations at all).
> 
> Do you mean the file associations in the File Manager?

i mean the file associations via mime-types, which are (normally) also
picked up by your File Manager.

> If not, is it
> possible for the user to make these file associations? For the File
> Manager, in Dolphin "pd" is the application associated with the file

the file-association should be for "pd-gui" rather than "pd" (the Pd-GUI
has all the logic to prevent double starts; the Pd-core does not, and
imho should not)

hgsdmt
IOhannes

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