kevin parks said this at Wed, 26 Nov 2003 02:07:19 -0500:
I notice another disturbing thing. I am not sure if it is just tk acting like tk or if it is something specific to my install, but i notice that i can't open a patch, highlight something, cut it, and paste it into a new patch. Seems like a mind-numbingly basic operation. Is is that Tcl/Tk is crummy on OS X? Just crummy in general? or is pd still like in a deep beta release? I wasted way too much time messing
Cutting and pasting across patches should work. What you describe is not normal; it should work. In fact, that's my main way of learning/getting things done... copying from tutorials and modifying things from there.
On Wednesday, November 26, 2003, at 01:19 AM, kevin parks wrote:
installed, but let the installer overwrite that with 8.4.1 since the site said that there pd "seems" to have trouble with 8.4.2 and 8.4.4. I am not sure what that is about. I'd wouldn't mind knowing if it does have trouble with it or not, "seems" is not a word one likes associated with software. It is like i "seem" to be bleeding from my
Later versions of Tcl/TkAqua not entirely functional, but no one has really tracked down the root cause. So empirically speaking, stick to 8.4.1, as distributed.
whatever, but refuses to open any patches and when i try it just keeps opening shells but not patch to run or edit.... I tried opening through the menu but all my .pd files are greyed out.
I'm not sure how you're "open"ing these patches, but to head off some potential complaints, double clicking patches in the finder is still on the primitive side in terms of its developing support, so it's better to open things from the Open dialog box. What you describe here is again not normal behaviour.
Someone please, i am begging, helping get this thing running, and also, is it at all possible to use GEM on Mac OS X and how do you do that?
Chris Clepper has a site with bleeding-edge versions of GEM: http://taproot.dyndns.org/~cgc/
Cheers, adam ps. Sorry you're frustrated, but I humbly suggest you chill out maybe two notches. This is a pretty mellow group on the list (usually).