On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 21:52, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 02/27/2012 03:39 PM, András Murányi wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 02:15, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> There are two new, easy ways to write objects for Pd: tclpd by Federico >> Ferri and pdlua by Claude Heiland-Allen, Frank Barknecht and Martin Peach. >> Both are now included in Pd-extended 0.43 and are automatically loaded at >> startup. [...] >> > > I was so excited to try tclpd, that even though pd 0.43 happens not to > work under my user account, I gave it a go under another account. Let me > share my not so merry experience, and sorry if it goes beyond tclpd itself. > > So this a user account that never ran pd-extended, although it (latest > autobuild) is already installed on the machine (Ubuntu Lucid). > > I start a new patch and try to create [tclpd], i get this error: > > maximum object loading depth 1000 reached > tclpd > ... couldn't create > > I quit so I can add tclpd to the preferences file, but I find there is no > .pdextended file. > > I go to preferences, it lets me add the path to tclpd, I click Apply, OK. > As we, the well-connected know it now, this has no practical effect - > except that it seems that on quit, a new default .pdextended is created - > with no reference to tclpd however. > > I open .pdextended in a text editor and add tclpd to the only list there > is: 'loadlib'. > > I go back to pd, [tclpd] still won't create. > > Back to text editor, copy-paste 'path' section of another user's > .pdextended into this one, add tclpd. > > Back to pd, [tclpd] still won't create. > > > This is where I am now. > Please tell me if I'm doing anything wrong and/or if I shall file any of > this as a bug. > > > There is no [tclpd] object as far as I know. tclpd is a "loader" library > that is loaded automatically at start by the new 'startup' mechanism in > Pd-extended 0.43. To use it, try out one of the examples in the Help > Browser -> tclpd -> examples. Or try downloading the 'tclfile' library and > dropping it into ~/pd-externals. You can see the Tcl script that made the > open by right-clicking and selecting Open. > > .hc > :o) I imagined something like [widget]... for no good reason then. András
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