[L2Ork-dev] external objects path

[Ivica Ico Bukvic]

I think this is something I don't feel as strongly about as you do. 
Perhaps one possibility would be to recursively navigate subfolders, 
rather than devising some kind of a one-of navigation with a subfolder. 
But there is a more fundamental problem we need to tackle first which is 
the order of paths in respect to individual patches. I agree with 
Jonathan that the first place a patch should look is its own folder and 
then go from there to explore the rest of the paths. If so, I would 
first worry about this, then worry about recursive searching of an 
object, which would also address your request.

All that said, I am wondering if you are suggesting that pd-extended is 
able to recognize an external in a subfolder with a same name? If so, I 
wonder if this is a feature or a byproduct of the current implementation...

Best,

Ico

On 11/14/2014 7:54 PM, Gilberto Agostinho wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am sorry to bump this up, but I have the impression this message got 
> forgotten in the middle the discussions about the latest commits.
>
> Best,
> Gilberto
>
> On 13/11/14 03:34, Gilberto Agostinho wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I just found out that Pd-l2Ork behaves differently than Pd-extended 
>> when it comes to the path of external objects. Let's say I have some 
>> objects named exampleN and their help files in the following folder 
>> structure:
>>
>> ~/.pd/extra-objects/example1/example1.pd
>> ~/.pd/extra-objects/example1/example1-help.pd
>> ~/.pd/extra-objects/example2/example2.pd
>> ~/.pd/extra-objects/example2/example2-help.pd
>> ~/.pd/extra-objects/example3/example3.pd
>> ~/.pd/extra-objects/example3/example3-help.pd
>>
>> That is, I don't want to simply put all these extra objects in a same 
>> folder, each one has their one specific folder with the same name. 
>> With Pd-extended, I could simply add ~/.pd/extra-objects to my path, 
>> and all of them would be automatically loaded (if and only if their 
>> subfolder names are the exact same as the object's name). This is 
>> very handy because you can organize your objects better, and also 
>> needs less work than adding each single one of them to your path.
>>
>> What do you think about this?
>>
>> Best,
>> Gilberto
>
>
>
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