On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
On 9/6/06, Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca wrote:
On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
Am I going about this wrong? I looked up OSX shell files online, and it seems they always have to be called from a terminal. I'd sooner explain how to open Pd and load my patch than to explain how to find a terminal window and type in the shell file name.
The quick solution for that is to make a OSX icon that launches Pd in a terminal and give that to your users.
I can't figure out how to launch Pd from the OSX command line. It's in an .app file, but the name of that file does nothing.
in OSX, a .app is a folder. In the Finder you can Ctrl+Click and do "Show Package Contents". Then inside that there's a folder called "Contents" (don't ask me why there's that extra level...), inside of which there's a folder "MacOS", inside of which there is the file "pd" which is a real OSX executable (in Mach-O format), which you can click on to start "pd" in a terminal. This also allows to start pd several times, unlike clicking on a .app folder.
Similarly you can open a terminal and just do:
Pd.app/Contents/MacOS/pd
I say this from memory, this might be slightly off.
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