I wanted to add to the file searchpath for Pd-extended so I went to Prefs -> Path... and chose "new". From there I get a dialog box and am able to choose the path I wish to add. All good so far.
But when I click "apply" after adding the path I get some hesitation, then: error: +/Applications/Pd-0.41.4-extended-20090126.app/Contents/Resources/extra/hcs: no such object error: +/Applications/Pd-0.41.4-extended-20090126.app/Contents/Resources/extra/hcs: no such object
in the Pd console. The path does not seem to be added and if I restart Pd, the path I added is not on the list of paths. This is the case for the released Pd-extended 0.40-3 as well as the nightly builds of 0.41.4 for OS X 10.4 Intel.
Even if I had added the path, though it probably wouldn't have solved my problem: I was trying to find a platform-independent (at least for OS X and Linux) way for pd to find gverb using |plugin~|. On OS X from the terminal if I do: export LADSPA_PATH=/Applications/audacity/plug-ins open Pd-0.41.4-extended-20090126.app then |plugin~| finds gverb successfully. But I wanted to find a way to extend the LADSPA_PATH ideally from a Pd patch itself or, short of this, without having to go to the terminal to start Pd. Of course the location of gverb is different between Linux and OS X and what I'm looking for is an easy way for |plugin~| in Pd to find gverb on either platform. Ideas?
Thanks,
-John