Well, it is not supposed to be a requirement. If the Csound program starts up in the same dir as the plugins, that is supposed to work. 

My theory is that some less technical users will unzip everything into one directly, and everything will just work...

I have no strenuous objection to changing this though. Perhaps it is less confusing to just exit with an explanation if OPCODEDIR is not set.

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: David Akbari 
Sent: Sep 15, 2005 1:00 PM
To: csound-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] No OPCODEDIR set message


On Sep 15, 2005, at 12:43 PM, Istvan Varga wrote:

> Steven Yi wrote:
>
>> Since OPCODEDIR and OPCODEDIR64 being set is coming up as an issue
>> over and over again, what does everyone think about displaying a
>> message to the user when they run Csound and it is not set, something
>> like:
>
> Actually, there is already a message with a second of delay to make it
> more noticeable, but it can be changed as you suggested, and perhaps
> it could be a fatal error instead of just a warning.
>


YES, YES, YES!!! FATAL ERROR ALL CAPS LOUD LOUD LOUD.......

it has to be evident when running the app that this specific 
environment variable is key. Also AFAIK this is the first version of 
Csound to require this?

Is it possible to have a "reasonable default" set simply to the current 
working directory ??


-David



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