[PD-ot] path

[prims at wol.be]

hi

this is what the documentation says about installing pd in windows:
"Pd is compiled under NT, but should work under any version of Windows since
95. Pd will appear as a "zip" file. Unzip this, creating a directory such
as \pd. (You can put it wherever you like but the path should have no spaces
in it; so "Program Files" would be a bad place.)" 


greetings

m

>-- Origineel Bericht --
>From: Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org>
>To: pd-ot at iem.at
>Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:18:28 +0200
>Subject: Re: [PD-ot] path
>
>
>Hallo,
Thurstan hat gesagt: // Thurstan wrote:

> The 'PD search path for patches and other files' menu is not clear to me.
> It contains a line with G:/Program Files/pd/extra/
> 
> When I close it and open it again it containts two lines:
> 
>
>G:/Program 
> Files/pd/extra/
> 
> This is due to the space I quess. When I then restore the first line
> and add "" like so: "G:/Program Files/pd/extra/" the path-menu will not
> open anymore.

This looks like a bug. 

> When does PD use this
>path-search function anyway? Because when I
> click on 'open' it still opens the 'bin' folders.

The search path has another function: It tells Pd, where to look for
objects (externals or abstractions) that are not built-in in Pd. All
those *.dll 
>iles in pd/extra/ for example can only be used it you
have this directory in you Pd search path.

> Greets and sorry for all these novice-questions.

We all were novices once. Those questions aren't off-topic at all, so
you should post them to pd
>list instead of here. 

ciao
-- 
 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__

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