Hi,
I read this in the html-docs:
3.7. dealing with files
[...]
If a filename specified in a patch has any "/" characters in it, the "path" is not used; thus, "../sounds/sample1.wav" causes Pd only to look relative to the directory containing the patch. (You may also invoke externs that way.)
I think, the docs are wrong here. When playing around with the Geiger namespace, that is, using subdirectories in the Pd-path to prepend namespace-like prefixes, I found, that Pd does not only look for abstractions and externs only in the patch directory, if those contain a slash.
Example:
mkdir /tmp/foo echo "#N canvas 0 0 450 300 10; #X text 160 100 bar inside foo;" > /tmp/foo/bar.pd pd -path /tmp/
Now you can create an object [foo/bar] and it will instantiate /tmp/foo/bar.pd
Am I misunderstanding the docs i.e. is this use case not a "filename specified in a patch" or is this indeed a doc bug?
Ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__