Couldn't you do this with an installer? Those are pretty standard in the computer world..
Would they be afraid of: run this installer ( puts pd.app in applications, installs externals where you need them, sets initial preferences) then run pd?
Alex
On January 13, 2017 3:44:02 AM PST, enrike altern2@gmail.com wrote:
On or., 2017.eko urtren 13a 12:18, Christof Ressi wrote:
creating a bat script that opens bin/pd.exe with the right flags to point to the extras and load them.
I was just going to suggest that. Since you already did that on
windows, what's the reason why that approach doesn't work for you on OSX (with a shell script)? I also don't see why you needed a .exe, the user can just click on the script... or is it just because people are used to launch programs from clicking executables?
yeah, technophobic art students get scared of anything.
I will try to go for the script but starting an app from a shell script
is not what they are used to :) I wanted to find a solution that would allow me to pass them a copy of PD that they just double click to run with no setup involved at all.
I know that they would learn more if they would install the extras and set the paths and preferences, but some of them would drop at there