That's an interesting question!

Pd~ starts up a new pd, whose current directory is the same as the parent, but whose search path is whatever Pd's default is. As far as I know there's no way for the "child" pd to inherit the search path of the original one. There should be a way to do this - I just never thought about it, and it migth not be terribly easy to code up :)

cheers Miller

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:55:03PM +0000, Jamie Bullock wrote:

Hi all,

I'm confused about how pd~ locates files loaded into its process using |pd~ start <filename>(

Where does pd~ look for files?

Does it make use of the search paths for the parent Pd instance?

Can I use relative paths?

I'd like to do something like:

|pd~ start mydir/mypatch.pd(

But where should I put mydir?

Thanks!

Jamie

-- http://www.jamiebullock.com

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