Hey Miller,
I just noticed that you left out a key part of pd-gui-rewrite in 0.43. There is the 'set-startup' and 'set-path' messages which allows pd-gui to get the state of those things without having to open the respective preference dialog panels. The changes are in m_glob.c and s_path.c, as well as these lines in pd-gui.tcl:
pdsend "pd set-startup" ;# get ::startup_libraries and ::startup_flags lists pdsend "pd set-path" ;# get the ::pd_path list vwait ::pd_path ;# wait for 'pd' to respond
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