after all the talk how the preferences file on OS X works, this issue remains unresolved.
sorry to nag with this, but there is no point in having an object and not knowing how it works. did ANY OS X user ever manage to use the flag '-stdpath' for the object [declare] in order to add a directory from extra to pd's searchpathes? roman On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 20:51 +0100, robbert van hulzen wrote: > hi all & hc, > just downloaded last night's autobuild--looks very nice! i understand the > wish for flexible colours etc, but hc, thanks a lot for the work! > there is something however that i don't understand: why is it that pd-ext > doesn't load all the libs it comes with? the .plist it comes with contains > 10 entries for loadlib, while in my tweaked prefs file for an earlier > version, there are 36. > i thought this problem might be a good reason to learn what [declare] is all > about, but i didn't manage: [declare -lib ext13 -path > /Applications/Pd-0.40.3-extended-20071106.app/Contents/Resources/extra/ext13 > /] didn't do it, and neither did variations on the path. according to the > help file (not included in the ext build), "you may use a full path name", > so i'm wondering what i'm doing wrong... also [declare -lib ext13 > /App...blablah] (as quoted by roman in an earlier post) doesn't work. am i > mixing up definitions of libraries? still, in verbose output, it shows that > the path i hoped to create is not searched. > i know there's been a lot of talk about [declare] (and [import]) on the > list, but it apparently didn't give me enough info to sort this out. > if i understood correctly, [declare] is different from [import] in that it > does its thing at startup rather than when banged? > i couldn't find a description in the pdpedia of either--i'll be happy to > make that entry as soon as i understand how they work. > help would be greatly appreciated! > cheers, robbert > ___________________________________________________________ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de
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