@oid wow, this looks solid

@oid said:

echo open filename.pd $(pwd); | pdsend 3000

Yep, it really works. Thank you @oid

@whale-av said:

@zerino Try using pdsend (a binary that is in your Pd distribution) from your script to send a message to Pd...
pd open patch.pd /the/path/to/patch/from/root
David.

$ pd open path just opens another instance.

trying with pdsend results in:

$ pdsend open /home/zerinol/fixo/pd/patches/audio_loader.pd
usage: pdsend <portnumber> [host] [udp|tcp] [timeout(s)]
(default is localhost and tcp with 10s timeout)

@oid said:

ve gotten so used to always opening patches from pd itself that it is rarely an issue.

I feel you my fellow. Thing is, pd open file dialog (I think its tk right?) is a pain to use. I wish i didn't have to.

How can I make it open the patch in the already running pd instance?

I use terminal a lot in my workflow, and usually launch things from terminal (I use 'lf' which is a terminal file explorer). Is there any trick to make xdg-open acknowledge an already running instance?

heres the pure data desktop file da xdg-open uses to handle .pd files:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Pure Data (Pd)
Exec=pd-gui %F
Categories=Audio;AudioVideo;Development;Music;Graphics
Keywords=Audio;Video;Programming;Synthesis;Analysis
Comment=Visual dataflow programming platform for multimedia
Comment[ca]=Plataforma de programació visual per aplicacions multimèdia
Comment[de]=Grafische Datenflussprogrammierung für Multimedia
Comment[es]=Plataforma de programación visual para aplicaciones multimedia
Comment[fr]=Plateforme de programmation visuelle pour applications multimédia
Comment[it]=Piattaforma di programmazione visuale per applicazioni multimedia
Comment[pt]=Plataforma de programação visuais para multimedia
MimeType=text/x-puredata;
GenericName=Dataflow IDE
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Icon=puredata

I know this is unix related, I even tried asking in unix stack exchange but pure data seems to be alien to them:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/752495/open-file-from-terminal-in-already-running-pure-data-instance?noredirect=1#comment1431905_752495

@oid thank you, that will do.

I'm trying to change some keybindings in pure data, I saw how to to it using custom plugins with tcl but the deletion command was not easy to figure out.

I read throughly pd_bindings.tcl and could understand how bindings works. I figured that "Delete" command is passed directly as key command to PD using

proc ::pd_bindings::sendkey

I then tried several methods but couldnt figure out how to set a new keybinding for deletion.

Tried this simple line

bind all <$::modifier-Key-w>     {pdsend "pd key 0 Delete 119"}

tried adding this condition to ::sendkey (would bind 'w' key for deletion)

    if { "$keycode" eq "25" } {
        pdsend "pd key $state Delete 119"
    }

none of those worked

how much

hello my fellows, been trying to compile GEM on osx myself, since most copies I get lacks some plugins (cant export imgs with pix_write(r) for instance).

I'm following this tutorial, but I'm on El Capitan
https://github.com/umlaeute/Gem/wiki/How-to-build-Gem-on-MacOSX-Mavericks

I'm getting the following error:

fribidi_log2vis
^
2 warnings and 1 error generated.
make[3]: *** [libUtils_la-GemString.lo] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

before hand, I was also trying to compile gavl, so I could incunde gmerlin in gem's build, but I had a similar error and decided to go without it.

test -z "/usr/local/share/doc/gavl/apiref" || .././install-sh -c -d "/usr/local/share/doc/gavl/apiref"
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 apiref/* /usr/local/share/doc/gavl/apiref
install: apiref/*: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [install-data-local] Error 71
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

maybe theres something missing on my system?

please, post the results!