Hi Clifford,
I've seen this problem on OS X a lot in my workshops. [hid] works fine, but something in the help file crashes it. Has to do with one of the messages in the help patch causing [hid] to try to open one of the built-in Mac HID devices (trackpad, keyboard, etc), which it doesn't like.
Here's a quick fix: open the [hid] help patch in TextEdit or some other text editor, and change the creation argument to something above the number of built in Mac HID devices. [hid 5] should work, for example. Remember to save as extension .pd! Then you should be able to open the help patch and get more information.
best, d.
Clifford Dunn wrote:
Hello list. I'm relatively new to PD and I'm trying to see how HID works in it. I'm using the most recent version of PD-Extended, the preference files are fine, and I'm running OS X 10.4.8 on a PPC Powerbook.
I can't seem to get [hid] to work. I can create the [hid] object and it seems to be ok...there's a slight pause in the system as it seems like it needs to load something. When I try to open the help file to figure out how to use it, PD crashes.