Re: [PD] gem.conf

2009-12-14 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Why introduce a new method of configuration when you can do this all with Pd messages? if you don't like it, don't use it. It seems to me to overcomplicate things for a tiny gain. Gem is already complicated as it is, now there is yet another way to

Re: [PD] gem.conf

2009-12-14 Thread cyrille henry
Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit : On Dec 13, 2009, at 3:11 PM, cyrille henry wrote: Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit : Why introduce a new method of configuration when you can do this all with Pd messages? It seems to me to overcomplicate things for a tiny gain. Gem is already

Re: [PD] gem.conf

2009-12-14 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
cyrille henry wrote: a nice use i see with this conf file is to change default video in device. so that you don't have change your patch if you change computer (1 with V4L and 1 with V4L2 webcam)... like that. or whether you want to use threaded image loading or not. (i couldn't think

Re: [PD] gem.conf

2009-12-14 Thread Peter Plessas
IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: cyrille henry wrote: a nice use i see with this conf file is to change default video in device. so that you don't have change your patch if you change computer (1 with V4L and 1 with V4L2 webcam)... like that. or whether you want to use threaded image loading

Re: [PD] gem.conf

2009-12-14 Thread András Murányi
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Peter Plessas ples...@mur.at wrote: What about this: Perhaps indicate the successful loading of those files in the post window instead of posting an error message when the files are not around. I routinely check the Pd window for errors at startup, and

Re: [PD] gem.conf

2009-12-13 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 cyrille henry wrote: IOhannes m zmölnig a écrit : Peter Plessas wrote: Oh, and i just compiled Gem and at loading the lib it posts a message about gem.conf not being found. What is this file? A config file for Gem itself? exactly. i

Re: [PD] gem.conf (was: Re: bug 2621932 appeared in version 0.42)

2009-12-13 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Dec 11, 2009, at 9:17 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Plessas wrote: Oh, and i just compiled Gem and at loading the lib it posts a message about gem.conf not being found. What is this file? A config file for Gem itself? exactly. i

Re: [PD] gem.conf

2009-12-13 Thread cyrille henry
Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit : Why introduce a new method of configuration when you can do this all with Pd messages? It seems to me to overcomplicate things for a tiny gain. Gem is already complicated as it is, now there is yet another way to configure it: messages, env vars, and a

Re: [PD] gem.conf

2009-12-13 Thread cyrille henry
the reason for this is, that Gem looks in several places for the configuration file, and they are merged together. the locations (on a linux system) are: /etc/pd/gem.conf ~/.pd/gem.conf gem.conf (whatever that means; it doesn't know anything about a current canvas but it is searching Pd's path)

Re: [PD] gem.conf

2009-12-13 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Dec 13, 2009, at 3:11 PM, cyrille henry wrote: Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit : Why introduce a new method of configuration when you can do this all with Pd messages? It seems to me to overcomplicate things for a tiny gain. Gem is already complicated as it is, now there is yet

Re: [PD] gem.conf

2009-12-13 Thread Jaime Oliver
but i would understand someone that set gemwin framerate at 50 fps because the default 20 fps is a nonsense... Isn't that changed by doing [gemwin 50]?  That doesn't seem so hard that a gem.conf is needed. or a loadbang to an fps message ___

Re: [PD] gem.conf

2009-12-12 Thread cyrille henry
IOhannes m zmölnig a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Plessas wrote: Oh, and i just compiled Gem and at loading the lib it posts a message about gem.conf not being found. What is this file? A config file for Gem itself? exactly. i haven't found a way to use Pd's