Lao Yu wrote:
Hi,
I copied all of the examples out of the application package into
another disk. everything is working fine. However when I was fiddling around I realized that pd would only open abstractions if they are
exactly inside the folder that they were. For instance, the patch / 3.audio.examples/D02.adsr.pd would not work if it is opened from a
different folder.
Did you copy all the files? Or just that one file?
I do not understand that. I'm not talking about an experimental patch
that has stuff changed, the same patch just "saved as" doesn't work.
A Pd program in general consists of multiple files - the "top level patch", the "abstractions" used by it (and the ones used by them, etc) and sometimes some "externals" too. If you save just one of those files somewhere else, how is Pd supposed to know where the other files are when you load it again?
Quick solution: keep all files belonging to one program in the same folder.
Other solution: add the folders containing the pieces of your program to Pd's -path list.
I'd appreciate any advice. I tried to add the folder inside the
application package to the startup path, but for some reasons that I
don't understand the configuration is not updated (and I don't know
if that would solve the problem in the first place).
Did you restart Pd after changing the settings?
Best Jurgen