hi

when you open a patch by msg like [; pd open mypatch.pd .( . is the directory, where pd was started from. but when you read a file with [soundfiler] or [textfile], . is the directory where the patch is saved. why this difference?

it is no problem to share a patch with soundfiles, if you share the whole directory, containing the patch and the soundfiles, if you specify the soundfiles relatively. but if you share a patch, that opens other patches by msgs, you need to specify the path (in a msg or in an external textfile) of the main-directory in order to have all things work correctly.

i'd propose to add an argument to the open-msg: [; pd open mypatch.pd . 1( opens the mypatch.pd relatively to the patch where this msg is in.

0 : takes the pd start location as root (in order to keep compatibility) 1 : takes the patch-root

or is there another solution for this problem?

cheers roman

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