hi,
just posted about panning, and then found a spacialisation package from CCIM that includes [vbapan~], [ambipan~], etc. etc....
good stuff it seems..
however, I am a new user and have yet to install externals (correct?) like this that I have downloaded outside of the extended package I have installed.
Can someone give me a rundown of this process please, I really don't know where to begin, maybe I just drag the folder somewhere, maybe it is more complicated...
I am on an intel mac...
thanks a million,
db

1. make a folder on your harddisk called 'myexternals' or something.

2. in the taskbar of pd, go into preferences->path....there will be no space to add a new path, but you can do it this way: on an existing line, without adding any spaces, add a colon and then the path to 'myexternals'

so, for example, /System/Library/Fonts will become /System/Library/Fonts:/myexternals

apply and save these settings, and your externals will work.

(if you have the CCIM extrenals in a folder of their own, then you will also need to specify this folder as a seperate path. ie /myexternals/CCIM )

thanks....
can't say how helpful this forum is..
cheers,
db

hi,
I am having trouble installing multiple externals that are residing in their own files. I have all of them placed in a folder (myexternals) and I have a path that reads (for example): /Library/myexternals/audience~
and another that reads: /Library/myexternals/CICM
but only one of these works, the first one I made a link to, CICM.
is there something I am missing when trying to install mulitple externals?
I originally had these installed without seperate folders, just place all of the necessary parts in /myexternals folder, but as I began to add more there were problems with duplicate file names so I revisited this thread.
Now the problem is that the path isn't correct, any suggestions?

db

Strange. If the path contains one that can be found it should find them all.
What happens if you move them all up one level?

i'm sorry, you'll have to elaborate "move up one level", unless that is literally to move it up a line...
it does in fact find them, but "wrong architecture" the catch here is that the external in question [audience~] was working fine when placed in the externs folder i created, but now that it is in that extern folder as it's own folder it doesn't work...
the path reads
/Library/myexternals/audience~

so maybe it isn't compiled correctly for me machine (intel mac) but I downloaded the OSX version of yves.

by the way, would you know of the yves's unauthorized library is included in Pd .39-3 extended? that would solve this problem...although i don't know how to load binaries either..

thanks

Pd won't search into the individual folders unless you have them in the path. One cheap way of getting round this is just to throw _eveything_ in the externals folder (ie move them up , out of their folders into one big heap in externs)

okay, this was the solution that was working for me, but I ran into problems with duplicate files as I started to add to this folder i.e.- multiple tk2c files, installs, makefile... perhaps these are not essential though? Can I trim down the extern as it is made available, and include only the essentials for the patch?

i figured this out by just typing a colon, no spaces, and adding a library to the startup..
also deleting a bunch of libraries that I don't use that were there...!
thanks for the help.