On Nov 11, 2004, at 5:14 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, B. Bogart hat gesagt: // B. Bogart wrote:
Anyone has a suggestion on how to force my pool data to save in the same dir as the parent patch of the abstraction, rather than the directory where the abstraction resides?
This question comes up very often, actually. In RRADical I use the only solution, that in my experience always works: use absolute paths like you get them from [open/savepanel]
I am convinced: relative paths are The Wrong Thing To Do In Pd (tm)
- except for some usecases like namespacing.
(It surely is possible to hack around the fact, that abstractions don't know their parents when they are written - for example using some Python scripting - but IMO it's hacking and thus should be left to Yves [excuse the silly Graz reference].)
Absolute paths are a real hardship when it comes to making portable, cross-platform patches. Anyone know what needs to be done so that we can use relative paths everywhere in Pd?
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