Re: [PD] why bother...

2008-07-10 Thread Andre Schmidt
yes sir... i couldn't resist the itch anyway :) http://osku.de/simsui/simsui-PROTOTYPE3.ogg http://osku.de/simsui/simsui-PROTOTYPE3.tar.gz there is probably a bug in my code, clutter0.6 or nvidia closed-source drivers, that makes the first slider and background to "flicker" when you move a thumb

[PD] shell problem on osx

2008-07-10 Thread marius schebella
Hi, when I use the shell object on osx, I get an error after every command I send to it. "The application pd quit unexpectedly". anybody know why and how to get rid of that? thanks a lot. marius. ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-m

[PD] flash server open on osx

2008-07-10 Thread marius schebella
Hi, the flashserver object has a nice feature to open flash files from within pd, but unfortunately this does not work on osx. it works on windows, not sure about linux. flashserver announces that it is opening a file: "flashserver: going to open fooflash", but then nothing happens. Is someone

[PD] how to send song position pointer?

2008-07-10 Thread christian dietz
hi everyone! i'm trying to send a "song position pointer"-message to a sequencer via the midiout object, but i don't get it to work. as i understood the message has to be a status byte (in this case 242 (dez) ) followed by two data bytes to set the song position. i'm able to send the status

[PD] -nogui on osx

2008-07-10 Thread marius schebella
Hi, I am having some troubles getting -nogui option work on osx. right now there are several problems with that: if I add -nogui to the startup prefs, the icon in the task bar keeps jumping, but pd does not start up. I have to start pd from terminal to get it running. otoh, I would prefer a solu

[PD] using alternative preference files

2008-07-10 Thread marius schebella
hi, I am planning to ship a striped down standalone pd versions that will provide a one click option to start a patch+interface. This will allow to run patches like applications without depending on any user preferences. Everything comes out of the box. It turns out that this is much easier on

[PD] [PD-announce] pdpedia is back!

2008-07-10 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
After a little holiday due to an OS upgrade, pdpedia is back! Please let me know if it isn't working for you: http://pdpedia.org .hc "[W]e have invented the technology to eliminate scarcity, but we are delibera

Re: [PD] Delete scalars

2008-07-10 Thread Miller Puckette
It's not the list management that's the problem, it's having a way to track down all stale pointers and un-point them. Currently this is managed by maintaining a per-list "stub" that the pointers all check through. one could have such a stub for every scalar, but this would add a lot of overhe

Re: [PD] Delete scalars

2008-07-10 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Miller Puckette wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 03:04:29AM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: So, why are singly-linked-lists so crucial to the design of Pd ? It's not the list management that's the problem, I think that this in itself might be a problem. So, why are singly-

Re: [PD] flash server open on osx

2008-07-10 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Olaf Matthes maintains a proprietary version for Max/MSP. .hc On Jul 10, 2008, at 2:46 PM, marius schebella wrote: > Hi, > the flashserver object has a nice feature to open flash files from > within pd, but unfortunately this does not work on osx. it works on > windows, not sure about linux. fl

Re: [PD] using alternative preference files

2008-07-10 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Try the new app maker on the Mac OS X builds, you'll need a very recent build otherwise it has a bug in it that prevents it from working. It'll automatically create a .app with your name, and include an embedded prefs file. I haven't touched -nogui on Mac OS X in a very long time. I bas

Re: [PD] -nogui on osx

2008-07-10 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Command line options on Mac OS X are problematic since Pd has a strange startup procedure: first, pd.tk starts, which starts "pd" which then starts the pd.tk pd-gui process, IIRC. .hc On Jul 10, 2008, at 3:19 PM, marius schebella wrote: > Hi, > > I am having some troubles getting -nogui opt

Re: [PD] -nogui on osx

2008-07-10 Thread Simon
On 11 Jul 2008, at 5:19 AM, marius schebella wrote: > I am having some troubles getting -nogui option work on osx. > right now there are several problems with that: > if I add -nogui to the startup prefs, the icon in the task bar keeps > jumping, but pd does not start up. I have to start pd from t