Thanks Derek,
Doing this did help me open the help file. However, a new can of worms has opened from this.
I can't seem to find much helpful information about the [hid] object in the helpfile. In fact, the only time the [hid] object appears in this patch it doesn't have any inlets or outlets. Maybe it's not necessary. I would like to know what these in/outlets are for this object though.
Also, the [hid] object does seem to be directly responsible for my crashes. It's rather irregular, but if I click on the object enough, PD will definitely crash. I've tried to create an [hid] object without a physical device (
i.e. [hid 5]), but the crashing will still happen.
Are there people regularly using HID with OS X?
Thanks again,
Clifford Dunn
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On 06/04/07, Derek Holzer <derek@umatic.nl> wrote:
Hi Clifford,
I've seen this problem on OS X a lot in my workshops. [hid] works fine,
but something in the help file crashes it. Has to do with one of the
messages in the help patch causing [hid] to try to open one of the
built-in Mac HID devices (trackpad, keyboard, etc), which it doesn't like.
Here's a quick fix: open the [hid] help patch in TextEdit or some other
text editor, and change the creation argument to something above the
number of built in Mac HID devices. [hid 5] should work, for example.
Remember to save as extension .pd! Then you should be able to open the
help patch and get more information.
best,
d.
Clifford Dunn wrote:
> Hello list. I'm relatively new to PD and I'm trying to see how HID works
> in it. I'm using the most recent version of PD-Extended, the preference
> files are fine, and I'm running OS X
10.4.8 on a PPC Powerbook.
>
> I can't seem to get [hid] to work. I can create the [hid] object and it
> seems to be ok...there's a slight pause in the system as it seems like
> it needs to load something. When I try to open the help file to figure
> out how to use it, PD crashes.
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