For probably a year I couldn't get the startup or path dialogs to come up. I'd select them on the menu and nothing would happen. I think it went through three different versions of Pd. I wasn't that concerned, I just edited the registry directly. I checked, and the dialogs are working fine as of now.
-Chuckk
On 9/14/06, David Powers cyborgk@gmail.com wrote:
You have a point there. The Preferences panes often don't work at all correctly, I'm not really sure why. For example, I added a flag in startups, but then the flag stayed on afterwards, until I edited the registry.
There's also a limit in the amount of libraries and directories you can add, which is a SERIOUS shortcoming.
However, this still leaves the problem of having two PD's installed at once. Any suggestions on how that should be done? The reason I had to install two PD's, is I'm using a brand new experimental version of Gem, that crashes PD-extended. But help fiiles don't work for me in Miller's PD, so every time I want to check a help file, I open PD-extended and use that browser. I am essentially using Miller's PD, with all the extended stuff dumped into the extra section of it, as Patco suggested.
Anyway, finally, even though I edited the registry by guessing, I'm still mostly clueless what the entries do. Any chance of getting it documented? Is it documented in some other form I just don't realize?
~David
On 9/14/06, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@eds.org wrote:
Even better would be to ignore how the data is stored, since that works fine regardless of anyone's feelings for the registry. Instead, improve the Preference Panes so that you don't have to manually edit the configs. Then everyone on all platforms will benefit.
.hc
~David
On 9/13/06, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@eds.org wrote:
On Sep 4, 2006, at 2:58 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, carmen hat gesagt: // carmen wrote:
i added a patch to the tracker a while back for pd.ini support on windows. easier than a batch file since its the same format
as .pdrc
on 'n[iu]x, and obviously easier than using an installer to add something to the registry.
I like that. The only Windows machines I have access to are at work and there I'm not enabled to touch the registry anyways. Also I
don't
know many Windows users who are comfortable with the registry. I
don't
know many people at all who know their way around the registry.
Like it or not (I don't), the registry is the Windows-native way of managing settings. I think we should try to be as native as possible on each platform, so on Windows that means using the registry. For what Pd uses the registry for, its really not that scary, and its pretty straightforward to manage.
.hc
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