hi,
I'm trying to install Pd-0.39.2-extended-test7-macosx104-powerpc.dmg from http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers.html on a G4 laptop running MacOSX 10.4.8
the instructions say:
# To install, drag the Pd.app anywhere on your your hard drive. # For newbies: to install support for creb, Gem, pmpd, xsample, vasp, # etc., copy the included org.puredata.pd.plist to ~/Library/Preferences # (~ means your home folder). If you already have preferences saved, # this would replace them.
I do exactly that and while I can get PD to run, it will not load any of the libraries. I've also tried to edit the preferences from the GUI...but no luck there either.
anyone have a working org.puredata.pd.plist or pdrc ?
what am I doing wrong?
thanks -august.
On 07/03/2007, at 0.21, august wrote:
the instructions say: [snip]
I do exactly that and while I can get PD to run, it will not load
any of the libraries.
I'm not sure i understand. What do you mean by "not load"? What
libraries/objects would you want to use, but can't?
Am 07.03.2007 um 12:19 schrieb Steffen:
On 07/03/2007, at 0.21, august wrote:
the instructions say: [snip]
I do exactly that and while I can get PD to run, it will not load any of the libraries.
I'm not sure i understand. What do you mean by "not load"? What libraries/objects would you want to use, but can't?
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I had something similar the other day, when i checked out "pdmtl", an
abstraction collection from Montreal.
sometimes "gem" was loaded sometimes not, the "genhead" object was
dotted, but if i created a new one it worked.
And the "startup" and "path" windows are a ****sorry*** mess.
I explain why: If you want to add a new path, usually all the lines
are occupied and not all of them (around 30) are displayes so what i
do is :copy a line, usually change the last path-entry, and i
separate the two entries with a ":".
There is the property List editor, but its somehow very uncomfortable
to edit entried there....
Is sthg wrong with that ? My impression is: sometimes it works,
sometimes it doesnt...
i think the "autogenerated" Preferences do not work a 100%, would it
be possible to have a similar script locally, that checks all the
folders. What was always strange to me: If you tell PD to search in a
path, would it not be the easiest to just check all the subfolders ???
hey thanks for the replies.
the instructions say: [snip]
I do exactly that and while I can get PD to run, it will not load any of the libraries.
I'm not sure i understand. What do you mean by "not load"? What libraries/objects would you want to use, but can't?
well, all of them. Gem and zexy to start with.
but I found the problem. What happened was I put the pd.app under applications, started it and then when I found out I didn't have the libs I wanted, I tried to edit them in the Preferences part of the PD GUI with "-lib Gem -lib zexy". But, that didn't work either, probably because I didn't set the path. So, I read the website and followed the instructions there about adding the org.puredata.* to ~/Library/Preferences. But, after doing that, it didn't work either. So, I tried to hunt down any .pdrc files that might conflict...but alas there were none to be found under /etc or my ~/ dir where they would normally be stored (under linux). So, eventually I figgered that the .app bundle was somehow storing the Preferences that I tried to set from the GUI and I just deleted it and put the orignal from the .dmg there instead. Now it works.
Maybe there should be some notification or convention on which preference files take precedence....the GUI prefs, the .pdrc, or the ~/Library/Preferences.
I think it might make sense to just keep the prefs in only ONE global location and ONE user-defined location which can override that.
-august.
I had something similar the other day, when i checked out "pdmtl", an
abstraction collection from Montreal. sometimes "gem" was loaded sometimes not, the "genhead" object was
dotted, but if i created a new one it worked.And the "startup" and "path" windows are a ****sorry*** mess. I explain why: If you want to add a new path, usually all the lines
are occupied and not all of them (around 30) are displayes so what i
do is :copy a line, usually change the last path-entry, and i
separate the two entries with a ":".There is the property List editor, but its somehow very uncomfortable
to edit entried there....Is sthg wrong with that ? My impression is: sometimes it works,
sometimes it doesnt...i think the "autogenerated" Preferences do not work a 100%, would it
be possible to have a similar script locally, that checks all the
folders. What was always strange to me: If you tell PD to search in a
path, would it not be the easiest to just check all the subfolders ???
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august -
Luigi Rensinghoff -
Steffen