is there any export function in Pd such that receiver don't have to install Pd and able to run the application on their computer?
exe for windows
dmg or other format for mac?
thx

like 'pluggo' for max/msp? the short answer is no.

although it seems there are workarounds where you can make standalone applications that do have pd running in the background, but pd is more invisible than normal.

Running in the background? hmm... Would you have to code it in python or c++ or something? Say you were using a .swf from flash? You could run a low-key version of Pure Data automatically?

Any news to this?

Eimer,

Pd and Pd-extended is free software and you may redistribute it, even in modified form, provided you follow the license terms (BSD and GPL).

If you are on OSX, it is very easy to create your own application with Pd-extended under the hood. Select menu-item 'file>>Make app from patch' or 'file>>Make app from folder'. What you get is a Pd-extended package with your patch as startup patch. The Pd window is minimized directly after startup, so at a first glance you don't notice it is Pd. But it is still fully functional with all Pd-extended libraries in it (120 MB!), and the possibility to edit patches and create new ones. With some extra tweaking, you can replace the Pd icon with an icon of your own make. The preferences file of this 'app' is within the app folder. If you included all necessary abstractions, and eventually your homebrew externals, you can distribute it as a stand alone app.

But probably you are not on OSX, otherwise you would have already seen this option. For Linux or Windows you could do something similar to the 'Make app' as described above, but do it by hand. You could write an executable tcl script to start Pd with your patch as startup patch, and eventually include other options in the script. (Pd uses Tk/tcl for graphics and other purposes, so it is included in every binary distribution of Pd-extended). The user can click that script to open your 'application'.

Disadvantages of distributing apps instead of patches are:

• you need to make separate distributions for every platform
• applications are large so you need ample download bandwidth on your server or host
• if Pd is obscured, you can't refer to Pd pages for support

All taken together, I see little advantage for distributing stand alone apps rather than Pd patches. If you want to make user-friendly distributions of your patches, you could organise them in a decent directory structure, where abstractions and other essential files are included in the search path by the [declare] object. For the user it is then a matter of installing a recent Pd(-extended) if they do not have it yet, and opening the main patch in your patches package. If all goes well, this is piece of cake, and on the other hand if they have troubles with soundcards etcetera, this is not something you could have prevented by supplying an app instead of a patch.

Katja