On 02/27/2012 03:39 PM, András Murányi wrote:
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 02:15, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at mailto:hans@at.or.at> wrote:
There are two new, easy ways to write objects for Pd: tclpd by Federico Ferri and pdlua by Claude Heiland-Allen, Frank Barknecht and Martin Peach. Both are now included in Pd-extended 0.43 and are automatically loaded at startup. [...]I was so excited to try tclpd, that even though pd 0.43 happens not to work under my user account, I gave it a go under another account. Let me share my not so merry experience, and sorry if it goes beyond tclpd itself.
So this a user account that never ran pd-extended, although it (latest autobuild) is already installed on the machine (Ubuntu Lucid).
I start a new patch and try to create [tclpd], i get this error:
maximum object loading depth 1000 reached tclpd ... couldn't create
I quit so I can add tclpd to the preferences file, but I find there is no .pdextended file.
I go to preferences, it lets me add the path to tclpd, I click Apply, OK. As we, the well-connected know it now, this has no practical effect - except that it seems that on quit, a new default .pdextended is created - with no reference to tclpd however.
I open .pdextended in a text editor and add tclpd to the only list there is: 'loadlib'.
I go back to pd, [tclpd] still won't create.
Back to text editor, copy-paste 'path' section of another user's .pdextended into this one, add tclpd.
Back to pd, [tclpd] still won't create.
This is where I am now. Please tell me if I'm doing anything wrong and/or if I shall file any of this as a bug.
There is no [tclpd] object as far as I know. tclpd is a "loader" library that is loaded automatically at start by the new 'startup' mechanism in Pd-extended 0.43. To use it, try out one of the examples in the Help Browser -> tclpd -> examples. Or try downloading the 'tclfile' library and dropping it into ~/pd-externals. You can see the Tcl script that made the open by right-clicking and selecting Open.
.hc