That's useful, but up until recently you had to create a second instance of Pd from the command line anyway, since OSX would show you the instance you already had if you tried to open it from the operating system.
Or...have I missed the point? My friend and collaborator always needs two Pd's, one for Gemnotes and one for audio processing, to play my musioc...and we wrote a BASH script to launch the gemnotes one after the audio one was set up. Ed Ninja Jamm - a revolutionary new music remix app from Ninja Tune and Seeper, for iPhone and iPad http://www.ninjajamm.com/ Gemnotes-0.2: Live music notation for Pure Data, now with dynamics! http://sharktracks.co.uk/ ----- Original Message ----- > From: Matthias Kronlachner <[email protected]> > To: pd-list <[email protected]> > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, 19 September 2013, 14:06 > Subject: Re: [PD] prevent opening of patches > > One more thing can be annoying on OSX: > If you open a second instance of Pd, the same patch as in the first will > be opened. > > One good thing to do is to create an AppleScript for opening Pd from the > Terminal: > > * Open AppleScript Editor and past the line: (of course adapt Pd-xxxx.app) > > tell application "Terminal" to do script > "/Applications/Pd-0.45-2.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pd" > > * Export as Application and put wherever you want.. Now you can open > multiple instances of Pd with that .app, and patches won't be loaded > automatically. > > Actually funny how complicated things get because of "user experience > optimizations". > > Matthias > > On 9/18/13 6:22 PM, Peter Venus wrote: >> Hello >> >> i assume, you are working on OSX: >> got to system preferences, >> click on the General Settings tab >> un-tick the box "restore windows when quitting and re-opening > apps" >> cheers, >> Peter >> >> Am 18.09.13 17:05, schrieb IOhannes m zmölnig: >>> On 09/18/13 16:01, Olivier Baudry wrote: >>>> Dear all >>>> >>>> Is there any function to prevent the opening of last patch when you >>>> start pd or pd-extended? >>> >>> how do you trigger that behaviour? >>> it doesn't do that here. >>> >>> fgmasdr >>> IOhannes >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> [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 > > > _______________________________________________ > [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
