yes, exactly what I was thinking about. thanks Ivica. M
-- Marco Donnarumma New Media + Sonic Arts Practitioner, Performer, Teacher, Director. Embodied Audio-Visual Interaction Research Team. Department of Computing, Goldsmiths University of London ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Portfolio: http://marcodonnarumma.com Research: http://res.marcodonnarumma.com Director: http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:53 AM, Ivica Ico Bukvic <i...@vt.edu> wrote: > FWIW, the latest pd-l2ork release has a “-unique” flag (disabled by > default) so whenever you open a new file by double-clicking inside a file > browser, it will open it inside an existing instance (if any) or spawn a > new instance (if none). Spawning instances with –unique flag will force > creation of a new instance.**** > > ** ** > > *From:* pd-list-boun...@iem.at [mailto:pd-list-boun...@iem.at] *On Behalf > Of *Marco Donnarumma > *Sent:* Sunday, September 22, 2013 7:14 AM > *To:* pd-list@iem.at > *Subject:* Re: [PD] prevent opening of patches**** > > ** ** > > That's useful, but up until recently you had to create a second instance > of Pd from the command line anyway, since OSX would show you the instance > you already had if you tried to open it from the operating system. > > Or...have I missed the point? My friend and collaborator always needs two > Pd's, one for Gemnotes and one for audio processing, to play my > musioc...and we wrote a BASH script to launch the gemnotes one after the > audio one was set up.**** > > ** ** > > well, personally most times, when developing, I need to create > abstractions and use global variables just to experiment with stuff. And if > two instances of Pd are opened when you don't want it, it can be very > annoying.**** > > Even worst scenario when you are teaching, student might open 4 patches at > a time, and as 4 Pd instances are launched, and it's a mess.**** > > I always wondered whether we could have a flag in Pd GUI that set this > kind of configuration. Like, "always open a new Pd instance", "always use > one Pd only"... something like that. imho it would be useful.**** > > cheers, > M**** >
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