So I just wrote up a patch that splits up the "pd start-path-dialog" and "pd start-startup-dialog" messages into two: one that sets the relavent variables in 'pd-gui' and the other that opens the dialog panel. This allows 'pd-gui' to ask 'pd' for those variables without having to open a dialog panel. That means that 'pd-gui' can then know the Pd path, the flags from the preferences, and the libraries that are set to load by default.

I called these new messages 'pd set-path' and 'pd set-startup'. Any objections, thoughts, comments?

.hc

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