Hallo, Richard Skelton hat gesagt: // Richard Skelton wrote:
Thanks for your reply Ben.
I don't know whether you're familiar with Macromedia Director, but it allows you to create fairly self-contained audio visual pieces that can be distributed as windows ".exe" applications on CDROM.
Which is totally useless unless you control which operating system your target audience runs.
I'm looking to move onto something more powerful, whilst retaining the ability to create and distribute something on CD that is hassle free for the end-user.
I'm sure that distributing Pd on CD is more hassle free than any Shockwave CD I had the pleasure of not being able to run on my Linux or a OS-X system.
I became interested in PD, as it looks like you can build an audio engine from the ground up, but I haven't read anything to say that patches can be compiled into a form that is executable on target machines that don't have PD installed.
Patches cannot be compiled into standalone applications, period. Max patches can with some tricks, Pd patches cannot. (Until someone sees the need to change that).
Patches do however run on Pd and Pd does run on many popular platforms. You don't need to have Pd "installed" to run a patch, just write a run.sh, run.bat or run.command file that calls a Pd executably on CD with your patch as startup argument. It really is that simple.
I somehow do not see *why* Pd patches should be compiled into an executable. What's wrong with text files? The whole world wide web is founded on text files? Why would anyone want to have a compiled web page that only runs on Windows?
Okay, Microsoft does want and did that, but who cares?
(Sorry if I sound a bit upset but: I'm sharing and opening up all my patches and I somehow would feel quite betrayed if compiled Pd patches would allow others to not share theirs when distributing them.)
ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__