Ok, with Dan's help I've now got a quick demo of the dialog preferences for OSX (intel): http://puredata.info/Members/jancsika/Pd-with-prefs-0.43.zip/view?searchterm...
Turns out the ability to build for ppc arch is no longer supported in recent versions of XCode (if I understand it correctly).
I guess I built without support for any other audio APIs, so the dropdown is permanently empty which is a little weird. Also you need at least tcl/tk 8.5 on your system. But other than that it should work.
If you try it out then me some feedback on the preferences dialog.
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-Jonathan