Re: [PD] pd installer for macosx not recognizing preferences

2007-03-07 Thread 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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Re: [PD] pd installer for macosx not recognizing preferences

2007-03-07 Thread Luigi Rensinghoff

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 ???




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Re: [PD] pd installer for macosx not recognizing preferences

2007-03-07 Thread august
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 precedencethe 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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[PD] pd installer for macosx not recognizing preferences

2007-03-06 Thread august
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.

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