On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 10:04 +0100, Steffen wrote:
On 22/03/2007, at 23.41, Roman Haefeli wrote:
When opening patches by sending messages to pd, the path is
relative to pd's startup-location. when loading other files (text-, audio-, data-files etc) the path is set relative to the location of the patch. since the patch doesn't know, where pd was started, you actually
cannot use relative pathes when opening patches by messages without:Maybe [declare] can help you? (Pd >= 0.40)
i'm afraid, it doesn't. as i understand [declare], it lets you add pathes, so that it finds abstractions or libs. but it doesn't help, when opening a patch by message to pd.
but it's a good point to point to [declare], since it lets you decide between relative to patch and relative to pd. i'd like to have the same opportunity for the [open(-message.
actually there are three different relative paths involved in pd:
- relative to pd
- relative to patch
- relative to start-up location
i claim to deprecate the latter. i think, now everyone knows about my opinion about this topic ;-)
it would be nice to hear more voices. does anything speak _for_ 'relative to start-up location'?
roman
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