Hi John,
John Cohen wrote:
Ive had no problem with pd so far but recently i tried creating the "counter" object and I've always had the same error "couldn't create counter. I'm pretty certain the object exists in pd since i saw it in a couple of tutorials.. am i missing a special library to get this object?
Well, ermm, several actually. In a way. The problem is that the namespace for [counter] is a bit polluted, meaning that there are different versions of [counter] in different libraries which do different things. I don't recall which libraries have one, so I never use any of them!
In the help files, help/2.control.examples/05.counter.pd and 06.more.counters.pd are the standard ways of counting. See also the help file for [mod].
also, i would very much want to see a list of objects available in pd. i haven't seen one so far, so its difficult to know what objects are installed and i can count with! thanks for your help
There's one for the core PD objects in help/5.reference/0.INTRO.txt Externals change from time to time, making it difficult to keep everything current. Here's a(n incomplete) list I made some time back:
http://flossmanuals.net/PureData/ListofObjects
best, d.