hi joao, nice to hear/read from you! > > careful with mistake number 1: in Pd all objects are made for > floats. almost only [i] is for ints.
yes, thanks, i'm aware of these basic and important differences. > this might be useful for you: I've made better versions of the > documentation files (afaik, the more complete there are). One of > them, the 0.Intro.txt file, you can get at http://puredata.info/ > Members/jmmmp. That was done some years ago, before Pd-ext existed > (but many externals already did). > I'm trying to do another one, with the latest version of pd-ext. > It's still incomplete, but you can see if it helps something. it's > attached. yes, this is definitely helpful, so, thanks for that. > > simple: if you go to extra/ext13 (folder where this external is, > check it by opening the help file or doing a search on your disk), > you see there's no uzi.[whatever] file, but just kalashnikov.[???] > [in windows, these files are **.dll, don't know the endings in > unix]. That means that to open this object, you must do kalashnikov > first; only after is the namespace uzi in memory. You might see who > did the ext13 externals and speak with him, it's the best way to > have it corrected. ok, i've seen this before (in max), but i don't see, what this is good for. well, not so important to me right now. > >> i've tried pd-extended 0.40.3 form this site http://puredata.info/ >> downloads >> when i launch this, i get a lot of errors: >> cyclone: can't load library >> zexy: can't load library >> creb: can't load library >> cxc: can't load library >> ... >> >> do i need to reset some preferences? > > I can't advise on macs, but did you check the file->path menu? or > mac guys could say where these settings are kept. yes, i did check the preferences and the path menu, but to be honest, this doesn't look very functional at all... i searched the archives and a lot of people seem to have difficulties with the preferences. i read about .pdrc, which should/could be a solution, but then in another post (from 2005!) i read this is deprecated and so on. so, my main question right now is, where and how does pd store it's preferences and how can i edit those (permanently) - on osx? it does work for me with pd-extended-0.39.3 for some reason (even if i move the app folder around or rename it). but in pd-extended-0.40.4 i can't edit the preferences gui - looks broken to me... i might start a new thread about this issue. so, thanks for your answers joao, best wishes, volker. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
