just downloaded last night's autobuild--looks very nice! i understand
the
wish for flexible colours etc, but hc, thanks a lot for the work! there is something however that i don't understand: why is it that
pd-ext
doesn't load all the libs it comes with? the .plist it comes with
contains
10 entries for loadlib, while in my tweaked prefs file for an earlier version, there are 36.
Hi Robert, I'm not sure what you mean when you say "the .plist it comes with"; the .plist is inside the Pd-Extended.app file now so it shouldn't have come with anything that looks like a separate file. If you still have a ~/Library/Preferences/org.puredata.pd.plist you should delete it (after making note of any customizations). Then Pd will use its embedded file instead (which I just checked - it contains 39 loadlib lines in my Pd-0.40.3-extended-20071106 build).
Hm, not knowing my way around OS-X-Pd, but: This sound bad. Isn't it
possible on OS-X to tweak a preference file once and for all and use it with each new Pd version like the ~/.pdrc and ~/.pdsettings files are kept on Linux? Or asked in a different way: how do you make a new pd-extended use a personal plist?
The .pdrc works great on OS X, exactly as one would hope now with the embedded prefs: the embedded prefs take care of configuring Pd-Extended and my .pdrc takes care of adding the things I'm interested in.
Robert, here's an example of .pdrc (just a file called ".pdrc" that lives in your username directory) -path /Users/LukeIannini/PureData/sft:/Users/LukeIannini/PureData/sft/Components:/Users/LukeIannini/PureData/sft/Components/Utilities/Users/LukeIannini/PureData/Extra/Synths/polywavesynth
-lib iemmatrix:iemlib:xsample:zexy -audiobuf 12 -jack
You can make the file in TextEdit if you're sure to choose "Make Plain Text" first, and on 10.5 it lets me save it as ".pdrc" with a warning (since the file will appear as hidden in the Finder), but I can't remember if that works in Tiger. If not, save it as just "pdrc", then open terminal and type "mv pdrc .pdrc".
Cheers Luke