scott, you may want to read the netiquette 
http://puredata.info/community/lists/Netiquette/ sections “Reply-To” and “HTML 
vs plain-text”

Am 10.10.2012 um 04:26 schrieb Billy King <[email protected]>:

> Great! Thanks Scott
> One other question. I recall there is a way to add a path from inside a patch 
> (instead of having to open the path-dialog).
> Do you know how?

[declare -path path/to/library]
this only takes effect when opening the patch. This method has several 
advantages over the path preference of the application. For instance that you 
can redistribute a patch with a folder where the abstractions are in and you 
can declare that relative path in your patch.


> From: Scott R. Looney <[email protected]>
> To: Billy King <[email protected]> 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 10:11:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] soundhack
> 
> it can be done by adding a path if needed to PD. 
> 
> #1: the more common way to install them is to take the folder with all the 
> files and drop it in a specific path within the PD application. 
> 
> on a Mac the '.app' application files are actually bundles and can be opened. 
> so find the PD-extended app, right click on it (or Ctrl click if you have no 
> right mouse button option) and from the popup menu select 'Show Package 
> Contents'. 
> 
> open the Contents folder and double click the 'Plugins' alias. this opens the 
> 'extra' folder where most if not all of the externals are stored. copy or 
> drop the soundhack folder with help files and 'pd_darwin' files in it and 
> restart PD. the soundhack folder should be visible in the Help browser.

this is NOT the preferred way to install libraries. If you do it like this you 
will loose the library when you update the application. Refer to 
http://puredata.info/docs/faq/how-do-i-install-externals-and-help-files
on how to install externals and help files. as HCS has already mentioned.

> #2. a pd_darwin file is a binary executable file created in C that runs in 
> PD, that is ported to Darwin. Darwin is the BSD Unix subsystem of every Mac 
> OS X system. PD refers to these types of files as 'externals'. these are not 
> editable in PD, but they will execute in PD.

m.
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