On Dec 11, 2009, at 9:17 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
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Peter Plessas wrote:
Oh, and i just compiled Gem and at loading the lib it posts a message
about "gem.conf" not being found. What is this file? A config file
for
Gem itself?
exactly.
i haven't found a way to use Pd's file-opening mechanisms without
outputting an error if the file cannot be found.
(but iirc, it only writes to stderr - if not using "-verbose"; so most
people probably won't notice)
it's meant as a replacement for all the weird envvariables that are in
use now.
you can use it set the single-context, default font, default window
size
and the like.
the format is very simple (but different from Pd's rcfile/settings).
one key/value pair by line.
e.g.
<snip>
font.face /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf
window.width 800
window.height 600
window.x 1024
window.y 0
window.border 0
</snip>
ideas on which things should be settable with this mechanism are
welcome.
mgfasdr
IOhannes
Why introduce a new method of configuration when you can do this all
with Pd messages? It seems to me to overcomplicate things for a tiny
gain. Gem is already complicated as it is, now there is yet another
way to configure it: messages, env vars, and a special conf file. I
don't see any reason why this all can't be handled by messages and a
[loadbang].
.hc
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