I think this is because on the Mac when you click-open a patch the OS doesn't tell Pd about the patch until after Pd is running (so the "send" was already tried.) A workaround would be to put the patch as well in the Pd command line. I don't know how to fix this in general.
cheers Miller On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 07:05:02PM -0500, marius schebella wrote: > I have never used this startup flag, maybe it is not supported under osx? > I can only suggest to use another method to pass startup arguments for > patches. I usually do this with textfiles. I find this useful especially > when I develop patches for other people or if I want to use the patch in > several locations, then people can have their own "settings" for the > patch, and nothing is destroyed when I do more development on the patch > inbetween. > I use textfile to read the file and spit it out on startup. and then do > the settings from within the patch. > marius. > > Nicolas Montgermont wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > I have a problem with the -send "msg ..." startup flag on osx. > > On linux the flag -send "receive_name "message"" works perfect to have > > the object [r receive_name] receive "message" at startup. > > On osx with the same syntax I got this in the console: > > error: "receive_name: no such object > > I've tried with some other combinations > > -send "receive_name message" > > -send ";receive_name "message"" > > without success. > > > > Anyone has an idea to make that flag works? > > I'm using > > Pd-0.40-3-extended-20080117 on osx 10.4.11 > > Thanks > > > > Nicolas > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
