On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 11:21 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I think it should not be too hard to make netpd double-clickable with
no extra setup at all (setting .pdrc, etc.) without embedding it into
it's own Pd install.
but this works smoothly and i think it is the only option, so that non-pd-users are willing install netpd.
The key is just trying it on other people's
machines, and finding the common access methods that work across OSes.
again, can you elaborate that a bit more?
how can the startup-script be edited by a double click installer in a manner, that it works with every pd-installation?
the main problem i see here, that (in contrary to other programing languages, if pd is considered as a programing language) pd lacks any feedback about loaded pathes and externals. if there would be a way to check within pd, if a certain external was loaded, a netpd-user would at least know, why it does not work as expected. also for the other issue with the netpd-path, using 'getdir' would be just a workaround, but not the solution for the problem (since using additional externals in an environment like pd increases the chance of having troubles anyway).
roman
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