My 2 Cents:
There is one pitfall which should be mentioned, since it happened to me and also others I wanted to teach structured Pd programming:
"The order of -path statements matters"
Use case: If I want to look in specific directory first for finding objects and libraries, so I can handle local overwrites or so and distribute the -path statements in many declare objects, then I do not know from looking at the code which path is used first, unless I create them in the order I want (Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V on each object), which is an undocumented behaviour which might change in future.
mfg winfried
My solution only one declare objets in a subpatch from the main patch with all the pathes in the wanted order. Am Donnerstag, 25. Februar 2021, 00:42:04 CET schrieb Peter P.:
- Philip Stone via Pd-list pd-list@lists.iem.at [2021-02-25 00:31]:
peterparker@fastmail.commailto:peterparker@fastmail.com writes:
Don't know if https://puredata.info/docs/faq/how-do-i-install-externals-and-help-files is up to date and of help for you, but you might wanna check it and get back with more specific questions and possibly a new email subject.
I have to say that I have gotten kind of lost in the discussions about loading and declaring external libraries. I would like >>to embrace the current best practices, but don?t have a solid overview of the whole. Would anybody be willing to write >>up a summary?>
(Hope this is a better subject line).
That very page has an expired link to a Google drive tutorial which sounds like just the thing I was talking about, so I’d say that it’s not up to date. I’d love to see best practices for [declare] blended into it. The helpfile for [declare] is good, but how’s a newbie even supposed to know to use the [declare] object in the first place? I’m just asking for an overview, is all.
I find declare's help patch well written, but of course it does not cover everything, what is it you are looking for Phil?
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