hi joao, nice to hear/read from you!
careful with mistake number 1: in Pd all objects are made for
floats. almost only [i] is for ints.
yes, thanks, i'm aware of these basic and important differences.
this might be useful for you: I've made better versions of the
documentation files (afaik, the more complete there are). One of
them, the 0.Intro.txt file, you can get at http://puredata.info/ Members/jmmmp. That was done some years ago, before Pd-ext existed
(but many externals already did). I'm trying to do another one, with the latest version of pd-ext.
It's still incomplete, but you can see if it helps something. it's
attached.
yes, this is definitely helpful, so, thanks for that.
simple: if you go to extra/ext13 (folder where this external is,
check it by opening the help file or doing a search on your disk),
you see there's no uzi.[whatever] file, but just kalashnikov.[???]
[in windows, these files are **.dll, don't know the endings in
unix]. That means that to open this object, you must do kalashnikov
first; only after is the namespace uzi in memory. You might see who
did the ext13 externals and speak with him, it's the best way to
have it corrected.
ok, i've seen this before (in max), but i don't see, what this is
good for.
well, not so important to me right now.
i've tried pd-extended 0.40.3 form this site http://puredata.info/ downloads when i launch this, i get a lot of errors: cyclone: can't load library zexy: can't load library creb: can't load library cxc: can't load library ...
do i need to reset some preferences?
I can't advise on macs, but did you check the file->path menu? or
mac guys could say where these settings are kept.
yes, i did check the preferences and the path menu, but to be honest,
this doesn't look very functional at all...
i searched the archives and a lot of people seem to have difficulties
with the preferences.
i read about .pdrc, which should/could be a solution, but then in
another post (from 2005!) i read this is deprecated and so on.
so, my main question right now is, where and how does pd store it's
preferences and how can i edit those (permanently) - on osx?
it does work for me with pd-extended-0.39.3 for some reason (even if
i move the app folder around or rename it).
but in pd-extended-0.40.4 i can't edit the preferences gui - looks
broken to me...
i might start a new thread about this issue.
so, thanks for your answers joao, best wishes, volker.