--- On Sun, 2/20/11, Mathieu Bouchard <ma...@artengine.ca> wrote:
> From: Mathieu Bouchard <ma...@artengine.ca> > Subject: Re: [PD] FLOSS book Lists chapter > To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancs...@yahoo.com> > Cc: "Hans-Christoph Steiner" <h...@eds.org>, pd-list@iem.at > Date: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 11:31 PM > On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Jonathan Wilkes > wrote: > > > I don't understand this process. I understand > the order, but why, for > > example, does > > [./sigmund~] create an instance of the sigmund~ > class? > > It's not like shell commands : even relative names that > contain slashes are looked for in the -path. In that sense, > it's more like gcc's -I options (including C_INCLUDE_PATH, > CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH and the implicit /usr/include and > stuff). I'm only familiar with the shell usage. I'm having trouble seeing the benefit of how Pd does it-- seems like it renders "./" pretty much meaningless, and "../" means "search the parent directory of every dir in the path", which seems like something one would rarely do. Am I misunderstanding something? > > >> How can those classes affect those users ? I > mean, how can > >> the collection of pd-extended classes act like a > haze, when > >> the users don't look at a list of 2000 classes ? > > Well if you use Pd Vanilla and want to find an object > that does something, > > you look for it, find it (or not), and start using > it. > > But I mean, if you look at Miller's index while in > Pd-extended, you only see the list of the classes that are > in Vanilla. It's not like the 2345 other classes are > actively bugging you in this context. It's a completely > different game than going in the "5.reference" folder. You > don't need to install Vanilla to benefit from Miller's help > files. > > > Also, keep in mind that currently it's hard to ask Pd > Extended > > to show you all the externals that do the thing you > want to do, and get > > back a meaningful answer. > > You mean you can ask it...? (you mean 43 ?) > > > * and of course you right-click to see what library it > is actually in but Pd's search party comes back with very > bad news: "Sorry, ma'am, but your child never even > existed..." > > Which error message do you actually mean ? > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > | Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- > Villeray, Montréal, QC > _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list