This patch makes it possible to have multiple running instances of Purr Data,
and to leverage that interface from Pd-l2ork to get [pd~] working on all
platforms

Some difficulties required revisions to [pd~] in Pd Vanilla's code
* use quoted path args for Windows when starting the [pd~] subprocess
* replace sys_havegui() from Pd Vanilla's recent "threadening" with sys_nogui

The "-unique" flag requires the OSX app bundle to be able to start by calling
the binary in Pd-l2ork.app/Contents/Resources/app.nw/bin/pd-l2ork. This should
also make it possible to run Purr Data on OSX both by using an app bundle
(where the GUI starts the Pd process) and by installing and running from the
command line (where the Pd process starts the GUI)

The "--user-data-dir" flag sets the directory for various nw.js state used
by a running instance. To prevent races nw.js requires that each running
instance have its own directory that is not shared with any other instances.

Setting the value for this flag has two important potential side-effects:

1. If you have a running instance and try to start an additional instance
   that has the same data directory, nw.js will just send an "open" event
   the first running instance and exit the 2nd instance gracefully. This is
   the default nw.js behavior and the default Pd-l2ork behavior as well.
2. If you have a running instance and try to start an additional instance
   with a different data directory than the first, you'll get a fully
   functional 2nd instance of nw.js running. This is the behavior we desire
   when the user runs pd-l2ork with the "-unique" flag.

In each case we set the data dir explicitly in order to get consistent
positional command line arguments in the GUI.

In normal mode Purr Data will use the default data dir as specified in the
nw.js docs for the particular platorm. Since the same default dir is used
each time Purr Data is run, there will be only one data dir that gets created.

When run with the "-unique" flag, Purr Data will append "-$portno" to the
default data directory, where $portno is the port Pd chose to communicate
with the GUI. That ensures that each separate instance of Purr Data can
get a unique data dir.

A side effect is that users may end up generating multiple data dirs that
don't get deleted on exit. But Pd starts searching for available ports in the
same range each time, and unless the user tries to run hundreds of instances
at once this directory spam shouldn't be too big of a problem.

Albert Gräf authored 8 years ago and Albert Gräf committed 8 years ago

Add a proper Pd-l2ork version number, which serves to identify official releases and the particular Pd-l2ork flavor (1.x for classic Pd-l2ork and 2.x for the nw.js a.k.a. Purr Data version).

first draft for opening files from command line or graphical file manager in the current Purr Data instance

first draft of saving the preferences, including the gui preset (still won't write to file for some reason)

remove realpath call and associated code for showing recent files (we get recent files in the native file dialog for free)

remove commented code for gathering up command line file list (now we just send each invidivually to the GUI)

 *added legacy option for iemgui objects. Starting pd-l2ork with -lega…

…cy flag positions iemgui objects in their old, vertically inconsistent locations for the sake of retaining complete backwards compatibility.

*added sys_legacy global for inclusion of other potential legacy breakages that may develop later.

*fixed segfault at start-up due to faulty allocation of the string length for checking for unique instance of pd-l2ork
*made unique check in pd.tk more robust in respect to relative paths and multiple files by making sure that the script always goes back to the original directory from which it was invoked, so as to ensure that the path (if relative) is valid

*fixed proper opening of paths with spaces ia unique check

*fixed how window shortcuts (ctrl+w and ctrl+q) behave in the view list menu for arrays

*fixed bug where patches with relative paths and multiple patches did not open properly within the existing instance of pd-l2ork

*fixed bug where recent files did not construct a proper path+filename when invoking it from a command line (at startup)

*refined recent documents logic (limiting it to the requested size, added files opened from the command line)
*fixed buggy way of focusing new windows

Removed unnecessary debugging hooks. Added -unique flag that enables spawning of multiple instances of pd-l2ork (disabled by default which means all new file opens will be forwarded to the existing instace). Made ALSA default driver