Hi, now that pd 0.48-2 is about to come out with the new deken, I'm checking it out and giving it a deeper look. I wasn't really using it before. So, I have a few questions and considerastions.
1- There's a default change, now it doesn't prompt you no more if you want to add externals to the path. I get it this is more than intentional and would like to inquire why. Thinking in the mind set of a newbie and newcomer, this might be handy to suggest. Advanced users who are annoyed can edit it in the preferences. Anyway, that's just my two pennies on it.
2- The preferences tab seems overcomplicated and I can't understand a few aspects of it. There is a "check" box which I don't know what it is supposed to check, and that I cannot actually click on it and activate the checking. Also, when asking "Install externals to directory:" I can select the same directory (/Users/porres/Documents/Pd/externals, in my case) in four different places, and I don't know why can't it be just one.
cheers
2018-08-05 1:21 GMT-03:00 Miller Puckette msp@ucsd.edu:
To Pd-announce:
Pd version 0.48-2test1 is available on http://msp.ucsd.edu/software.htm or (source only) via github: https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data
This test version fixes a number of bugs in Pd 0.48-1.
Source and 32-and 64-bit Mac and Windows versions are available; Mac/PPC and ARM versions should follow later.
cheers Miller
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On 08/06/2018 03:50 AM, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
2- The preferences tab seems overcomplicated and I can't understand a few aspects of it. There is a "check" box which I don't know what it is supposed to check, and that I cannot actually click on it and activate the checking.
no. (aka: i cannot reproduce your problem and you haven't given enough information)
Also, when asking "Install externals to directory:" I can select the same directory (/Users/porres/Documents/Pd/externals, in my case) in four different places, and I don't know why can't it be just one.
i don't have any dupes. most likely you've already "manually" added that same directory multiple times to your search path, and deken just reflects your choice.
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2018-08-06 4:12 GMT-03:00 IOhannes m zmölnig zmoelnig@iem.at:
most likely you've already "manually" added that same directory multiple times to your search path, and deken just reflects your choice.
nope, I had completely nuked Pd out of my machine and did a fresh install from scratch, and i got that.
(aka: i cannot reproduce your problem and you haven't given enough
information)
Since both issues are not intentional, I'll open an issue then when I have the time. But this is me in macOS 10.12.6, others might test it as well and see if they have similar issues.
2018-08-05 22:50 GMT-03:00 Alexandre Torres Porres porres@gmail.com:
1- There's a default change, now it doesn't prompt you no more if you want to add externals to the path. I get it this is more than intentional and would like to inquire why. Thinking in the mind set of a newbie and newcomer, this might be handy to suggest. Advanced users who are annoyed can edit it in the preferences. Anyway, that's just my two pennies on it.
I have a new consideration about this. Since Pd suggests the creation of a documents folder, and since declare isn't working for that option yet (and since miller is holding that fix for 0.49), it makes sense to me to keep prompting the user to add the folder to the search paths because that's what will help him best, as you'd actually need to include it in the search path if you were were to use Pd default's suggestions. Advanced users can still edit this for more complicated and different kind of setting.
cheers
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