[PD-ot] path

[Thurstan]

> Aha... I thought using absolute paths (with quotemarks) would solve that
> problem or be a workaroudn. I guess I gussed wrong. Thank you, I will try
> running Pd in a different folder altogether :)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <prims at wol.be>
> To: <pd-ot at iem.at>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 2:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD-ot] path
>
>
> > 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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