hi miller will [declare -stdpath] work inside abstractions?
thanks roman On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 10:32 -0800, Miller Puckette wrote: > Hi Frank, > > Well, I can't remember now if I was looking at that bug report or if I was > having my own problems with declare (I've had many). I had bad confusion > making abstractions use "soundfiler", for instance, and having relative > paths get expanded relative to the abstraction instead of the calling patch. > However, when an abstraction opens a sub-abstraction as in "x/y", I think > it's best to have x/y be relative to the abstraction's location and not the > calling patch's. These two needs seem in direct conflict. I hope to figure > out a better way to handle this but have given up trying to resolve it > for 0.41. > > I hope nobody is yet throwing "declare" objects in abstractions, as that > currently does something so wrong (altering the global path for the calling > patch!?) that I thought it better to get rid of the whole thing for now. > > cheers > Miller > > On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 06:28:20PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I checked out the behaviour of [declare] in the latest test version, > > which supposedly should have some fixes according to the release > > notes: > > > > Fixed "declare" which wasn't working properly yet in 0.40-0, and made > > more objects (notably "soundfiler") respect "declared" paths. Path > > entries are relative to the parent patch. Declares inside abstractions > > are ignored. > > > > Now I'm not sure, if simply ignoring declares in abstractions is the > > right thing (tm) to do. Using the declare-bug.tgz examples from Bug > > #1714473 I now cannot make abstractions evaluate declares anymore. > > This seems to be intended, but why? > > > > The example uses an abstraction, "myabs/test-patch-with-deep-declare" > > that includes an instance of [abuse-me], which by [declare -path > > ./sub] inside "myabs/test-patch-with-deep-declare.pd" should be taken > > from "myabs/sub/abuse-me.pd". But, alas, this isn't found and thus > > "myabs/test-patch-with-deep-declare" is broken. Opening > > "myabs/test-patch-with-deep-declare.pd" directly will make it find the > > correct abuse-me.pd in myabs/sub/abuse-me.pd > > > > I believe, the correct behaviour would be to not ignore the declares > > in abstractions, but make them act relative to the abstraction's path. > > > > Otherwise abstractions would behave differently when opened directly > > compared to when used as abstractions, which I think is very > > confusing. > > > > Ciao > > -- > > Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PD-dev mailing list > > PD-dev@iem.at > > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev > > _______________________________________________ > PD-dev mailing list > PD-dev@iem.at > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev ___________________________________________________________ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de _______________________________________________ PD-dev mailing list PD-dev@iem.at http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev