On 01/25/2013 07:22 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
>> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]>
>> To: Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]>
>> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 6:26 PM
>> Subject: Re: [PD] Loading Gui-Plugin in a Directory Other than in Standard 
>> Path
>>
>> On 01/25/2013 06:24 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>>>  From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]>
>>>>  To: Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]>
>>>>  Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>>>  Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 6:17 PM
>>>>  Subject: Re: [PD] Loading Gui-Plugin in a Directory Other than in 
>> Standard Path
>>>
>>>  [...]
>>>
>>>>>   Also, is there a tcl variable that holds the paths that were set 
>> by a
>>>>>   [declare], or one that holds the paths for the currently opened 
>> patches?
>>>>>
>>>>>   -Jonathan
>>>>
>>>>  Hmm, off the top of my head, I don't think you can get the 
>> canvas-local path
>>>>  (ie. [path] or [declare -path]) in the GUI.
>>>
>>>  Someone wanted to search whatever libs they had loaded, or in the path of 
>> the
>>>  patch that was loaded, so I think it is already desired.
>>
>> Yeah, it could be useful.  Its a matter of someone implementing it.  I can't
>> think of any objections.  It seems to me that it would basically end up 
>> having
>> a mirror of the t_class struct in the GUI.
> 
> That was one thing that was neat about the the object-oriented GUI approach
> of DesireData-- you ended up with a mirror of the Pd side of things (at least 
> it
> looked that way).
> 
> BTW-- I've done a little work on my "rename" hack, and it seems to work ok
> so far.  The question is should the FUDI message that I generate look exactly
> like the FUDI message that triggered the event in Pd that generated the 
> message
> to the gui in the first place, or does it just need to follow the FUDI syntax?

Since pd-gui --> pd is FUDI, pd --> pd-gui should be too.  Then it also fits
in to the 'Pure Data' idea of the same message format everywhere, including
within Pd, between pd and pd-gui, in the file format, in network
communication, etc.

.hc

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