I saw it quite recently.
A student showed me a patch where objects kept disappearing. IIRC it would have been on a Mac with OSX 10.6 running whatever was the extended release available end October 2010 I said is was probably a graphics bug and to reinstall. AFAIK it went away. This is pure superstition and folklore, but I'm sure it had something to do with using [knob] objects. Just a feeling in my bones. a. On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 14:21:23 -0500 (EST) Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, João Pais wrote: > > >> Randomly disappearing boxes, and generally, canvas appearance that stops > >> reflecting canvas content — wasn't that a big WINDOWS®-only bug in Pd a > >> few years ago ? No idea what the problem was. Does that still happen to > >> anyone ? > > > > I've used Pd 99,9999% of my time in windows, and don't ever remember that > > happening. > > Since what year ? > > I think it was a fairly long time ago, although I do have a vague memory > of having seen the problem much later and having been surprised, but that > might have been simply because someone was using a very old version. > > My guess is that it was something that got fixed in Pd 38 or so (2004), > but that's a bit of a wild guess. > > _______________________________________________________________________ > | Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- Villeray, Montréal, QC -- Andy Farnell <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
