On Sun, 2015-06-21 at 20:17 +0800, Chris McCormick wrote: > If you have a chance to try out the 'freeverb~' external I uploaded on a > Pd-vanilla 0.46 from Miller and to let me know if that works for you on > Windows that would be very useful. If it works I'll upload more of the > old Pd-extended externals binaries.
I tested on my work computer with Windows 7. Things seem to be slightly different in Windows 7 compared to Windows XP. The Deken documentation says it downloads and extracts externals to %AppData%\Pd. That is not the case on Windows 7. It seems Pd (and Deken) have %AppData% hard-coded to "%ProgramFiles%\Common Files", which seems wrong on Windows 7. On my box, %AppData% is set to C:\Users\%UserName%\AppData\Roaming. Deken can't download to '%ProgramFiles%\Common Files', because it would need higher privileges to do so. In order to still be able to test it, I created a symlink (I figured those exist in Windows,too) 'Pd' in % ProgramFiles%\Common Files pointing to C:\Users\%UserName%\AppData \Roaming\Pd. Now, Deken was able to download the freeverb external, but it couldn't extract the package: --- Unable to extract package automatically. Please perform the following steps manually: 1. Unzip C:/Program Files (x86)/Common Files/Pd/freeverb~(Windows-i386-32)-externals.zip. 2. Copy the contents into C:/Program Files (x86)/Common Files/Pd. --- This is what I did (a Windows Explorer showing the contents of the archive popped up, so it was easy to move it to the correct place). Finally, I was able to load the external and I played around with the help-file. All seemed fine. Probably the path issue needs to be already fixed in Pd? I couldn't figure out why Deken cannot extract the archive on its own. Might this be also a privilege issue? Roman _______________________________________________ Pd-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
