after all the talk how the preferences file on OS X works, this issue remains unresolved.
sorry to nag with this, but there is no point in having an object and not knowing how it works. did ANY OS X user ever manage to use the flag '-stdpath' for the object [declare] in order to add a directory from extra to pd's searchpathes?
roman
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 20:51 +0100, robbert van hulzen wrote:
hi all & hc, just downloaded last night's autobuild--looks very nice! i understand the wish for flexible colours etc, but hc, thanks a lot for the work! there is something however that i don't understand: why is it that pd-ext doesn't load all the libs it comes with? the .plist it comes with contains 10 entries for loadlib, while in my tweaked prefs file for an earlier version, there are 36. i thought this problem might be a good reason to learn what [declare] is all about, but i didn't manage: [declare -lib ext13 -path /Applications/Pd-0.40.3-extended-20071106.app/Contents/Resources/extra/ext13 /] didn't do it, and neither did variations on the path. according to the help file (not included in the ext build), "you may use a full path name", so i'm wondering what i'm doing wrong... also [declare -lib ext13 /App...blablah] (as quoted by roman in an earlier post) doesn't work. am i mixing up definitions of libraries? still, in verbose output, it shows that the path i hoped to create is not searched. i know there's been a lot of talk about [declare] (and [import]) on the list, but it apparently didn't give me enough info to sort this out. if i understood correctly, [declare] is different from [import] in that it does its thing at startup rather than when banged? i couldn't find a description in the pdpedia of either--i'll be happy to make that entry as soon as i understand how they work. help would be greatly appreciated! cheers, robbert
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