For some workshop, I am tuning tcl settings so I can give every students a pd with libs and special gui menu. In the pd-extended era, I was simply modifiying the command "New" in pd_menucomands.tcl so it would add thoses lines:

pdsend "pd filename $untitled_name-$untitled_number [enquote_path $::filenewdir]" #create new patch
pdsend "#N canvas 0 0 900 600 12;"
pdsend "#X declare -stdpath extra/path1"
pdsend "#X declare -stdpath extra/path2"
pdsend "#X obj 0 0 path/menu_bar" #menu object
pdsend "#X pop 1"

The patch was created and saved with the paths inside the pd file; and no [declare] object was visible, hence, no path object deleted by mistake by user: perfect magic trick.

Now, many things have change in Vanilla pd. The "filename" command disappears replaced by "menunew".

So I need to do:

pdsend "pd menunew $untitled_name-$untitled_number [enquote_path $::filenewdir]" #create new patch
pdsend "#X declare -stdpath extra/path1"
pdsend "#X declare -stdpath extra/path2"
pdsend "pd-$untitled_name-$untitled_number obj 0 0 path/menu_bar" #menu object

But Why the path trick doesn"t work anymore?

When hit the New patch it works but the console say:

#X: no such object
#X: no such object

Is there a way to include the path without adding many objects [declare] automatically for every patch created? I know that I can use a .sh script with path flags but I prefer to keep this way so the native menu "New" of pd will add my special paths in every .pd files created, and add my menu object.

@60htz Good..... that narrows it down..... progress at last.
[pwd] in tcl was around in 2007.... so not sure why it is not returning the current path in osx..... but we will find out.
David.

@60htz Again with a search for "path" in the terminal please....... declare-plugin.tcl

@whale-av

New Path >>  //extra/path1
New Path >>  //extra/path2

@60htz [pwd] seems to be the culprit.
This still works in windows and my fingers are crossed.......... declare-plugin.tcl
Search for "Current" and "Path" afterwards......... although they should be grouped together.
David.

@whale-av

Great!
That's working now, you were right pwd was the culpid. Thanks, it works well now

I think I owe you a beer

@60htz Does a new patch then find your abstractions?
If it does then a beer is in order....... except that I will buy the next round for the 2 months it took to solve this.

I suspect that [pwd] is working but that in osx Tk/Tcl is running in the root directory.
In windows it is running in Pd/bin.........
David.

@whale-av

Yes, all the abstractions are found this way. That's the perfect solution against the new [declare] behaviour that changed recently.

Thanks to you and @ingox who are always there to deliver high quality answers to tricky question like mine on this forum

@60htz You are very welcome....... we are rewarded fully just by each new success.....!

@whale-av I have another question, now that the tcl plugin add the path, would it be also possible to declare libraries this way? I tried adding :

set startup_libraries {mylib}

But It doesn"t work. This would be useful because I try to avoid making a .sh script for OSX and different .bat for windows.