On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, David Sabine wrote:
Hello,
I've noticed a mistake in "2.control.examples/15.array.pd"
There are examples which write a text file called "file.txt" and a wav file called "file.wav"
The objects are instructed to write to a sub directory of "2.control.examples" called "tmp"; however the problem is simply that "tmp" does not exist. It either needs to be manually created as a sub-directory of "2.control.examples" or the message boxes need to be edited to write to the current directory instead of the 'missing' sub directory.
Just reporting the error...perhaps it could be fixed for future revisions/releases.
the thing is (as i remember without having access now to any pd machine), that the files should be written to "/tmp/..." instead of "tmp/...". the "/tmp/" folder is a common temporary folder on unix-systems that grants read/write-permissions to all (!) users. the "doc/reference"-folder will normally be somewhere in the system-folders where no one but the super-user has write/access. on windoze machines this is completely different (especially with all these r/w-permissions) there is no real "standard"-temporary folder on all windoze systems (i think)
however, there is (yet) no *simple* solution that provides a writable directory for all users from within a pd-example patch on all platforms. so you will have to change the paths manually for now.
mfg.cas.dr IOhannes
Dave S
p.s.: I'm using WinXP with PD 0.35 preliminary test 17