To Pd-announce:
Pd 0.50-1 is available on http://msp.ucsd.edu/software.htm or (source only) via github: https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data
Only two small changes from pd 0.50-0: the HTML-opening command to teh new pdcontrol object handles spaces in pathnames, and, on PCs, typing tildes is fixed for Spanish and Portuguese keyboard layouts.
cheers Miller
Pd-announce mailing list Pd-announce@lists.iem.at https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-announce
Hello!
The delete key on the mac used to delete the previous character to the left. But now it deletes the next character to the right. I'm on a macbook pro with 10.14.6
This could be seen as just an annoyance as one can actually learn how to deal with the new behaviour I guess... though some habits die hard for old monkeys like me (I still use command + shift + H when I want a horizontal slider, but end up loudly cursing at myself when I hide Pd's window). But the problem is that this is not how the delete key works on macs for every other software, so it's very very conflicting and I do consider this a bug indeed. Moreover, this change was propably completely unintended. And I also got really thrown off by this until I figured out what was going on - it just did feel like a weird and uncontrollable bug. Even after having figuring it out, I just keep screwing things over and over.
This seems to have something to do with the changes to the keyboard settings from Pd 0.50-1 that fixes issues in PCs for portuguese/spanish keyboards. Since this change doesn't macs, I'm just sticking to Pd 0.50-0 for the moment.
Anyway, not sure how hard would it be to go back to the earlier and correct behaviour, I hope it's not too much of a headache and that we could have this sorted on a Pd 0.50-2 release soon to come.
Thanks
On 27.09.19 01:54, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
Hello!
The delete key on the mac used to delete the previous character to the left. But now it deletes the next character to the right. I'm on a macbook pro with 10.14.6
This could be seen as just an annoyance as one can actually learn how to
i'm honestly annoyed by how this went. please regard the rest of this email in rant-mode, triggered by my personal annoyance. i just have to vent my frustration.
after [732] was escalated to "show stopper" i provided a fix for the problem, with a plead for testing and (quite detailed, i think) instructions on how *anybody* could do this testing, no git nor compilation skills required.
henri and lucarda responded (but afaict, they only use windows), nobody else seemed to care. (probably christof tested as well, but he is also on windows).
<super-rant-mode> i probably should have just ignored that "show stopper". probably i should ignore *this* problem as well. </super-rant-mode>
Anyway, not sure how hard would it be to go back to the earlier and correct behaviour,
to put simply, it is impossible: we *never* had *correct* behaviour.
of course we could go back to the "earlier" behaviour, but that was buggy (and the recent modifications are attempts to fix this bug). i'm not sure that the new bugs are more severe than the old ones.
fgmsdr IOhannes
-
Alexandre Torres Porres -
IOhannes m zmoelnig -
Miller Puckette