[PD-ot] path

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

This may have changed in 0.37.  Miller's Windows distro for 0.37  
installs into C:\Program Files\pd by default, so I'd imagine that it  
would work properly.  But I haven't tested it at length yet, so I  
couldn't say for sure.

.hc

On Thursday, Oct 16, 2003, at 06:55 America/New_York, Thurstan wrote:

>> 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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