On 2016-10-05 11:26, Christof Ressi wrote:
mtof~.dll mtof~-help.pd I DID find the help in \pd-extended\externals\vanilla\ (Windows machine) But NOT under my Vanilla install (0.47-1).
this is because pd-vanilla has very few externals (an "external" is an object that comes from a file other than the Pd-binary itself).
Pd-extended attempted to remove all internal objects from Pd and put them into a "vanilla" library. that's why you see a mtof~.dll
I also went to the top of my 0.47-1 install tree and looked for any file called mtof~ and FOUND NOTHING.
see above.
So maybe you can tell me how, when I instantiate [mtof~], where exactly it is coming from? Is it an internal? Is it an external?
well, christof already gave you the quick and dirty way: open the help-patch of the object and see if it is a Pd-vanilla help patch.
a more correct (though cumbersome) way would be to start Pd-vanilla without any libraries and paths loaded
pd -noprefs -nostdpath -verbose
create the object and see whether it instantiates. if it does, check the Pd-console to make sure that it was not loaded from some local file. if it instantiates and is not from a local file, then it is an internal.
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