Work is already underway to do that, but there are problems. There are
two things left that need to be done in order to make this work.
- MacOS X tries to be too smart and treats .app directories in a
special way, so you can't browse them. This means that if the pd/doc/
directory is in the .app directory, then when you try to read the docs
in Pd, it just shows you the Application. A workaround to this needs
to be found
- An "AppMail.tcl" script needs to be written in order to make Pd.app
function like a double-clickable app. Here's a howto:
http://www.ling.lu.se/persons/Johan/tcl/
I won't have time to work on these until July. But if someone figures
out these two issues, then it will be easy to do the rest.
.hc
On Thursday, Apr 8, 2004, at 04:39 America/New_York, guenter geiger
wrote:
Hi,
A Mac user suggested that it would be more "mac like" to put the whole Pd distribution into one single Application directory instead of using the unix file system standard.
I think technically it is feasable, what do you think about producing the Mac packages that way ?
Guenter
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Let's keep this on the list, it could be helpful to others.
On Wednesday, Apr 7, 2004, at 19:39 America/New_York, chun lee wrote:
Hi there:
Thanks for your reply:)
What happened to #2? ;) Anyway, this depends on where and how you installed Pd. If you used the installer, then the externals are installed into /usr/local/lib/pd/extra.
Ya, #2 was deleted cause it sounded a bit silly..... Anyway, I
figured out the externals are all at '/usr/local/lib/pd/extra' but the folder is hidden in the Finder. Is there a way that I can gain access to these folders via the Finder? Or could I use the Terminal to copy the /extra folder to somewhere that I have access to and then change the file path in Pd?
I will give it a try...There are two ways that I know to open hidden folders with the GUI. First in the Open panel, you can just type it and hit enter. Or from the Terminal.app, you can do: "open /usr/local/lib/pd/extra"
.hc
pdb is a great resource, but unfortunately, since it has to be manually updated, it doesn't get updated much. So it shouldn't be taken as definitive. The easiest way to find out what objects are installed
on your computer is to look in the above mentioned externals directory..hc
Ok, now I know.
Many thanks
Yours
CHUN
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