On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 23:15 -0500, Mike McGonagle wrote:
Hello all,
I have been following the development of [declare], but sadly every time I have tried to use it, it doesn't appear to work as the help file says it should.
sorry, in case this obvious for you, but have you tried to save the patch and reopen it? [declare] shows only effect on patch load, afaik.
however, i several times fooled myself when testing [declare] (forgot to remove .pdrc or i had a symlink from home to extra) and sometimes it was really not working. this led me to think, that it might be useful to have a test setup for testing [declare]. i am thinking of something as as test directory/file layout and a test patch that shows how these files can be made visible to the patch using declare. additionally it would be helpful to have the according verbose output in order to make sure, that the pathes haven't been added by .pdrc (or whatsoever). i would be glad to elaborate such a test environment for [declare], but at this point it is not even clear, how [declare] is supposed to behave in certain cases (e.g. when used in abstractions).
afaik, hans already provided some patches to fix those [declare] issues. however, i don't know since which version of pd-extended those patches are included. you might check the changelog to see whether [declare] is supposed to work correctly in your version. afaik, at this point it is also not clear, whether those patches will get accepted, so there might be more trouble to come. let's hope for the best.
roman
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