I sort of got pd to work (you know Tcl/Tk, is often doesn't look like it is working even when it is *^-^* ) by biting the bullet and trying OSXPM, a tool which frightens me, to uninstall, by hand anything that looked or smelled like Tcl/tk or pd and installing from scratch.
I notice another disturbing thing. I am not sure if it is just tk acting like tk or if it is something specific to my install, but i notice that i can't open a patch, highlight something, cut it, and paste it into a new patch. Seems like a mind-numbingly basic operation. Is is that Tcl/Tk is crummy on OS X? Just crummy in general? or is pd still like in a deep beta release? I wasted way too much time messing with SuperCollider, a program whose massive power is matched in magnitude only by the ugliness of its syntax, the poverty of it's documentation, and the completeness of its backwards incompatibility. I want something that i can get some work done on. Life's short. I thought that i would give pd a try. Are folks successful (making pieces, performing) in working with pd on Mac OS X?
back to the manual..
cheers,
kevin
On Wednesday, November 26, 2003, at 01:19 AM, kevin parks wrote:
Hi,
I downloaded the pre-built package from www.pure-data.org and ran the installer. I let it install everything. I had Tcl/tk 8.4.4 already installed, but let the installer overwrite that with 8.4.1 since the site said that there pd "seems" to have trouble with 8.4.2 and 8.4.4. I am not sure what that is about. I'd wouldn't mind knowing if it does have trouble with it or not, "seems" is not a word one likes associated with software. It is like i "seem" to be bleeding from my head. Either you are or you ain't.... Anyhoo... Things are a mess. pd launches the wish sell and gives you the other little box for IO or whatever, but refuses to open any patches and when i try it just keeps opening shells but not patch to run or edit.... I tried opening through the menu but all my .pd files are greyed out.
Someone please, i am begging, helping get this thing running, and also, is it at all possible to use GEM on Mac OS X and how do you do that?
Any help would be appreciated
-kevin--