Answering my own question for the archives: Switching file finding to use canvas_open in the external seems to have fixed the issue. I can now load successfully with no file path set in preferences by using [declare -path s4pd]. :-)
iain On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 8:43 AM Iain Duncan <[email protected]> wrote: > Re the first point, this is in conflict with what I received from others > in another thread. So if there are other opinions on this I would still > like to hear. > > Re the second, that's a different issue, and I am literally working on it > right now. Please note that that ticket was not closed, nor did I indicate > anywhere that it was solved in rc3. > > iain > > On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 8:38 AM Alexandre Torres Porres <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> You don't and shouldn't need declare at all, you just have a single >> external and its name is the same as the folder's name "s4pd". >> >> The object should be able to load files on the same folder as the help >> patch or in folders relative to it, but it still can't (with version rc3). >> >> Em sáb., 9 de out. de 2021 às 12:09, Iain Duncan < >> [email protected]> escreveu: >> >>> Oh I think I might have stumbled on the answer, but confirmation would >>> be lovely. I was using open_via_path to find the file, is it that I need to >>> use canvas_open for the declare path to work? >>> >>> iain >>> >>> On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 8:02 AM Iain Duncan <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi folks, I'm still working on the packaging of s4pd with regard to >>>> finding scheme files, and am almost there, but having some weirdness with >>>> [declare -path]. It was recommended to me that I advise people in the docs >>>> to put a [declare -path s4pd] in their patches so that finding scm files >>>> would "just work". >>>> >>>> My understanding is that this would add the s4pd path to their file >>>> path, meaning that files in that dir should get found, just as if one had >>>> put it explicitly into the Pd path preferences. However, this doesn't seem >>>> to do that on MacOS. >>>> >>>> I run make install, and it puts my stuff in ~/Library/Pd/, so that >>>> there is a directory, ~/Library/Pd/s4pd, with all the files, at the same >>>> level as the external. But if I try to use a patch with an s4pd object and >>>> a [declare -path s4pd], the declare path appears to make no difference: I >>>> still need to go add ~/Library/Pd/s4pd to file preferences for the files to >>>> be found. >>>> >>>> Hopefully someone can clear up what is happening here, or my >>>> misunderstanding of what the declare is supposed to do. >>>> >>>> thanks! >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pd-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev >>> >>
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