It´s also good to be able to change the font and fontsize to a good windows standard, also another thing that was annoying when switching from Pd Extended to Pd Vanilla overcome! Consolas 12 seems like a good choice!
I think upon uninstall of Pd the extra folders are left untouched, so I think I will continue to have extra libraries there (pd/extra). Sometimes I read upon the importance of using /user/AppData/Roaming/Pd or Program/Common Files/Pd . How to think and act upon these considerations? I bet this been discussed alot before, maybe a new thread if not? Of course it is platform dependant and now here I am speaking windows considerations.
C:\pd\bin>pd -help
usage: pd [-flags] [file]...
audio configuration flags:
-r <n> -- specify sample rate
-audioindev ... -- audio in devices; e.g., "1,3" for first and third
-audiooutdev ... -- audio out devices (same)
-audiodev ... -- specify input and output together
-audioaddindev -- add an audio input device by name
-audioaddoutdev -- add an audio output device by name
-audioadddev -- add an audio input and output device by name
-inchannels ... -- audio input channels (by device, like "2" or "16,8")
-outchannels ... -- number of audio out channels (same)
-channels ... -- specify both input and output channels
-audiobuf <n> -- specify size of audio buffer in msec
-blocksize <n> -- specify audio I/O block size in sample frames
-sleepgrain <n> -- specify number of milliseconds to sleep when idle
-nodac -- suppress audio output
-noadc -- suppress audio input
-noaudio -- suppress audio input and output (-nosound is synonym)
-callback -- use callbacks if possible
-nocallback -- use polling-mode (true by default)
-listdev -- list audio and MIDI devices
-asio -- use ASIO audio driver (via Portaudio)
-pa -- synonym for -asio
-mmio -- use MMIO audio API (default for Windows)
(default audio API for this platform: MMIO)
MIDI configuration flags:
-midiindev ... -- midi in device list; e.g., "1,3" for first and third
-midioutdev ... -- midi out device list, same format
-mididev ... -- specify -midioutdev and -midiindev together
-midiaddindev -- add a MIDI input device by name
-midiaddoutdev -- add a MIDI output device by name
-midiadddev -- add a MIDI input and output device by name
-nomidiin -- suppress MIDI input
-nomidiout -- suppress MIDI output
-nomidi -- suppress MIDI input and output
other flags:
-path <path> -- add to file search path
-nostdpath -- don't search standard ("extra") directory
-stdpath -- search standard directory (true by default)
-helppath <path> -- add to help file search path
-open <file> -- open file(s) on startup
-lib <file> -- load object library(s)
-font-size <n> -- specify default font size in points
-font-face <name> -- specify default font
-font-weight <name>-- specify default font weight (normal or bold)
-verbose -- extra printout on startup and when searching for files
-noverbose -- no extra printout
-version -- don't run Pd; just print out which version it is
-d <n> -- specify debug level
-loadbang -- do not suppress all loadbangs (true by default)
-noloadbang -- suppress all loadbangs
-stderr -- send printout to standard error instead of GUI
-nostderr -- send printout to GUI instead of standard error (true by default)
-gui -- start GUI (true by default)
-nogui -- suppress starting the GUI
-guiport <n> -- connect to pre-existing GUI over port <n>
-guicmd "cmd..." -- start alternatve GUI program (e.g., remote via ssh)
-send "msg..." -- send a message at startup, after patches are loaded
-prefs -- load preferences on startup (true by default)
-noprefs -- suppress loading preferences on startup
-sleep -- sleep when idle, don't spin (true by default)
-nosleep -- spin, don't sleep (may lower latency on multi-CPUs)
-schedlib <file> -- plug in external scheduler
-extraflags <s> -- string argument to send schedlib
-batch -- run off-line as a batch process
-nobatch -- run interactively (true by default)
-autopatch -- enable auto-connecting new from selected objects (true by default)
-noautopatch -- defeat auto-patching new from selected objects
-compatibility <f> -- set back-compatibility to version <f>