On Oct 27, 2007, at 11:59 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote: > On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 12:02 +0200, Enrique Erne wrote: >> On Oct 27, 2007, at 5:56 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote: >> >>> >>>> in order to work with pd-ext i had to rename some object in chat >>>> and >>>> netpd-gui i.e. [l2s] to [zexy/list2symbol] or [netclient] to >>>> [maxlib/netclient]. >>>> is renaming zexy , maxlib objects with namespace the correct/ >>>> only way >>>> in pd-extended? >>> >>> >>> hm, i didn't test myself, but since you are using pd-0.40 >>> (extended or >>> not) zexy and maxlib and stuff should be loaded by [declare]. i >>> think >>> currently they are only loaded as externals, which means, for >>> extended >>> we would need to add them as pathes as well (with '-stdpath' >>> instead of >>> '-stdlib'). could you test, if that works? there is no way in >>> renaming >>> all the objets. >> >> most of them could be replaced with list-abs :) >> >> i tested if [list2symbol] could create and reloaded a test patch with >> >> did not create: >> import zexy >> declare -path zexy >> declare -stdlib zexy >> declare -stdpath zexy >> declare -path >> /Applications/Pd-0.40.3-extended-20071026.app/Contents/Resources/ >> extra/ >> zexy >> declare -stdpath >> /Applications/Pd-0.40.3-extended-20071026.app/Contents/Resources/ >> extra/ >> zexy >> >> did create: >> import zexy/list2symbol >> declare -stdlib zexy/list2symbol >> >> on osx 10.3.9 (it's an old cat) with Pd-0.40.3-extended-20071026.app >> >> >> but again. i want to know the official way to load an external in >> pd-extended. who can answer this or where is it documented? >> >> the readme says "By default, most of the included libraries are >> loaded >> at startup." >> >> if import is the way to go what about all helpfiles, do they need to >> get updated in order to work? > > in case of netpd, it's not worth to think about [import] at all. netpd > won't use it.
Any particular objection to [import]? It's an external like any other. If you use list2symbol, etc. because it solves problems, I don't see a reason to ignore [import]. .hc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. - General Smedley Butler _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list