On Dec 11, 2009, at 9:17 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
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Peter Plessas wrote:
Oh, and i just compiled Gem and at loading the lib it posts a message about "gem.conf" not being found. What is this file? A config file
for Gem itself?exactly.
i haven't found a way to use Pd's file-opening mechanisms without outputting an error if the file cannot be found. (but iirc, it only writes to stderr - if not using "-verbose"; so most people probably won't notice)
it's meant as a replacement for all the weird envvariables that are in use now. you can use it set the single-context, default font, default window
size and the like. the format is very simple (but different from Pd's rcfile/settings). one key/value pair by line. e.g.<snip> font.face /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf window.width 800 window.height 600 window.x 1024 window.y 0 window.border 0 </snip>
ideas on which things should be settable with this mechanism are
welcome.mgfasdr IOhannes
Why introduce a new method of configuration when you can do this all
with Pd messages? It seems to me to overcomplicate things for a tiny
gain. Gem is already complicated as it is, now there is yet another
way to configure it: messages, env vars, and a special conf file. I
don't see any reason why this all can't be handled by messages and a
[loadbang].
.hc
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