Subject: Re: [PD] Is it possible to specify relative path inside pd~ object for -pddir argument ?

From: IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig@iem.at>

Date: 13/01/2021 à 15:22

To: pd-list@lists.iem.at

On 1/13/21 10:03 AM, Jean-Yves Gratius wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to specify a relative path

use an absolute path?
[pdcontrol[ to the rescue!

fgmrda
IOhannes

Ok for using [pdcontrol] to obtain absolute paths.

So I did some investigations (Ubuntu 18.04-5, Reaper, latest pd vanilla and camomile v1.0.8-beta)

1)    absolute paths for pddir and scheddir work fine, both in pd vanilla and in camomile, when hardcoded as arguments of pd~ box.

2)  

[pd~ pddir  <absolute path for pd bin>, pd~ start subprocess.pd(
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[pd~ -ninsig 2 -noutsig 2 -fifo 20]

works well in pd vanilla,  although you cannot send  a [pd ~scheddir xxxxx(  message.  (but if you put pdsched with pd binaries, it's ok)

In my tests, (2) doesn't work in camomile.

3) Now a workaround  will be to dynamically create the pd~ box with all hardcoded arguments cooked from [pdcontrol]

Jean-Yves Gratius