[PD] [Pd][Windows] Handling Paths and Visual Enhancements

2009-01-28 Thread Ray Rashif
Smashing day == Part 1 == I'm trying to do some user-interaction and would like to use variables for handling filepaths. I understand this may not be a problem with Linux/Mac as we can use ~/ for the user's home directory. What would be the Windows equivalent of that? I'd also like to know how to

Re: [PD] [Pd][Windows] Handling Paths and Visual Enhancements

2009-01-28 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
Ray Rashif wrote: Smashing day == Part 1 == I'm trying to do some user-interaction and would like to use variables for handling filepaths. I understand this may not be a problem with Linux/Mac as we can use ~/ for the user's home directory. What would be the Windows equivalent of that? I'd also

Re: [PD] [Pd][Windows] Handling Paths and Visual Enhancements

2009-01-28 Thread Steffen Leve Poulsen
~/ will give you the home dir of the current user on XP with Pd-vanilla. And you can substitute backslash with slash mhv/SteffenLP Ray Rashif skrev: Smashing day == Part 1 == I'm trying to do some user-interaction and would like to use variables for handling filepaths. I understand this

Re: [PD] [Pd][Windows] Handling Paths and Visual Enhancements

2009-01-28 Thread Ray Rashif
Thanks. Pretty strange, though..neither of those work (writing to Desktop). Making files at the workdir will suffice for now. Anyway, regarding the appearance, I was told by Hans the same on IRC a day ago or so - that it was the latest pd-extended. However, my copy of the Windows version

Re: [PD] [Pd][Windows] Handling Paths and Visual Enhancements

2009-01-28 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: == Part 2 == Look at the screenshots at http://digital.music.cornell.edu/kevinernste/tutorial_3_audio_input_and_recording Is that a Mac-specific look or could we patch the latest version to look like that? this is how Pd-extended looks like on

Re: [PD] [Pd][Windows] Handling Paths and Visual Enhancements

2009-01-28 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: this is how Pd-extended looks like on all platforms. No, it's actually OSX-specific to the extent that all lines are blurred out to dim greys two pixels wide instead of being sharp dark lines one pixel

Re: [PD] [Pd][Windows] Handling Paths and Visual Enhancements

2009-01-28 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: == Part 2 == Look at the screenshots at http://digital.music.cornell.edu/kevinernste/tutorial_3_audio_input_and_recording Is that a Mac-specific look or could we patch the latest version to look like that? this is how

Re: [PD] [Pd][Windows] Handling Paths and Visual Enhancements

2009-01-28 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Jan 28, 2009, at 5:19 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: Ray Rashif wrote: Smashing day == Part 1 == I'm trying to do some user-interaction and would like to use variables for handling filepaths. I understand this may not be a problem with Linux/Mac as we can use ~/ for the user's