hi robbert
you're question is not silly at all, since there seems to be no help-file anymore at all, that could be consulted.
iirc, the '-path' option adds a path, that could be specified relatively to the patch, that holds the [declare]. as i understand it, it can be used for projects, that have a structure like this:
mainpatch.pd \ directory/someabstractions.pd | otherdirectory/moreabstractions.pd
with a [declare -path directory -path otherdirectory] in mainpatch.pd it is easy to distribute the whole project and it will work everywhere without havin to modify the pd-settingsfile. and unlike a path from the pd-settings, the classes [someabstraction] and [moreabstractions] are only available in mainpatch.pd (which means: pathes added by [declare] don't add pathes to pd's searchpathes in general, but only to the patch's searchpathes)
- it is basically the same
the option '-stdpath' does add pathes relative to 'Pd' (whatever this means). as far as i understand, you can use it to add a directory from extra to the patch's searchpathes. this could be practical, if you have two different patches open, and one uses [counter] from 'extra/cyclone' and the other uses a [counter] from 'extra/<i_dont_know>'.
- it is basically the same, as you would create [cyclone/counter] and
[<i_dont_know>/counter].
when specifying absolute pathes, '-stdpath' and '-path' shouldn't make any difference, afaik.
afaik, it is the same with '-stdlib' and '-lib', but in this case the classes are loaded for all patches, not only for the one, that holds the [declare].
however, there seem to be a bug with '-stdpath' on os x.
roman
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 20:49 +0100, robbert van hulzen wrote:
can i ask a silly question? what's the difference between -path and -stdpath? -path just uses that path once? in any case, i didn't get that to work either--and from previous posts, it seems other people did. or not on osx? however, i sorted things out with the prefs file, so i guess i won't need [declare], not at the moment. cheers, robbert
"Roman Haefeli" reduzierer@yahoo.de wrote:
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?
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