[PD] pd/extra objects don't create in help-intro.pd without adding path

[Joey Dodson]

Got it. That makes sense. :)

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 9:35 AM Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu> wrote:

> For example, if you want to write your own version of sigmund~ in order
> to easily compare it with the built-in one (as I'm busy trying to do now.)
>
> The stuff in extra is there because I think it's useful (except for pique
> and
> fiddle~ which are just plain obsolete) but could be done in any number of
> other
> ways instead.  Also, a couple of the objects (pd~, sigmund~, bonk~,
> fiddle~)
> can be compiled separately as Max externs.
>
> M
>
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 11:58:35PM -0700, Joey Dodson wrote:
> > I did indeed have "use standard paths" disabled for some reason. Enabling
> > it solved the issue. Thanks Miller! Now I'm curious what the advantage is
> > to disabling standard paths.
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 12:54 PM Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > If you have "use standard paths" disabled in the path preferences this
> > > could happen.  (It's on purpose :)
> > >
> > > cheers
> > > Miller
> > >
> > > On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 10:33:59AM +0200, Dan Wilcox wrote:
> > > > What OS and Pd version are you using? How did you install Pd?
> > > >
> > > > Pd 0.50-2 on my macOS 10.14 system creates all extra objects in the
> > > general help patch. As far as I recall, it always has so this sounds
> like a
> > > bug or misconfiguration issue.
> > > >
> > > > > On Oct 19, 2019, at 11:15 PM, pd-list-request at lists.iem.at wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I realized that although help-intro.pd (accessible by right
> clicking a
> > > > > blank section of canvas and going to Help) lists objects in
> pd/extra,
> > > those
> > > > > objects wouldn't create until I added the path.
> > > > >
> > > > > It that the expected default behavior? It seems to me that objects
> > > included
> > > > > in Pd vanilla shouldn't require extra path additions or
> declarations.
> > > Maybe
> > > > > there is a good reason for this though that I'm not aware of?
> > > >
> > > > --------
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> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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