On Mon, 2017-10-02 at 18:34 +0000, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
If supporting pure vanilla patches to their full extent would be a stated goal of the Pure Data project, I'd have some incentive to
report
stuff, but it seems it isn't.
Supporting Pd Vanilla patches to their fullest extend is a goal of Purr Data.
Up to which version? I'm asking about what you'd like to have reported as bug and what rather not. The 'set' method to [dac~] was implemented in Pure Data 0.47 (I guess) and is not yet supported in Purr Data.
What are the crashers you are experiencing?
Re weird looking patches and unusuable GUIs: the flag -legacy pretty much nails it. Most of the patches I tested look good and work well. Two issues I encountered regarding the GUI part:
- In Pure Data in a group of overlapping widgets, the lowest one grabs
the mouse commands (which is probably not a design decision, but it proved helpful for certain hacks). In Purr Data, the most top one grabs the mouse, which breaks such patches created in Pure Data. I'm not proposing to change that behavior, as it probably seems more logical to most users the way Purr Data does it, I'm simply pointing out differences.
- A self-made abstraction (GOP widget) that lets you scroll through a
list of and select an item, doesn't work well in Pure Data. Instead of showing only the label of the last selected item, all labels stay and thus end up in a black block after a while. I haven't investigated the root cause yet.
Re crashes. I do experience some crashes, for instance when loading certain netpd sessions (which does quite a lot of things including but not limited to dynamically creating abstractions). But I haven't investigated yet why. It may be due to an external I use which comes in a different version in Purr Data.
I will report back when I more useful data.
Roman