[PD] HID Crashing

[Derek Holzer]

Hi Clifford,

I've seen this problem on OS X a lot in my workshops. [hid] works fine, 
but something in the help file crashes it. Has to do with one of the 
messages in the help patch causing [hid] to try to open one of the 
built-in Mac HID devices (trackpad, keyboard, etc), which it doesn't like.

Here's a quick fix: open the [hid] help patch in TextEdit or some other 
text editor, and change the creation argument to something above the 
number of built in Mac HID devices. [hid 5] should work, for example. 
Remember to save as extension .pd! Then you should be able to open the 
help patch and get more information.

best,
d.

Clifford Dunn wrote:
> Hello list. I'm relatively new to PD and I'm trying to see how HID works 
> in it. I'm using the most recent version of PD-Extended, the preference 
> files are fine, and I'm running OS X 10.4.8 on a PPC Powerbook.
> 
> I can't seem to get [hid] to work. I can create the [hid] object and it 
> seems to be ok...there's a slight pause in the system as it seems like 
> it needs to load something. When I try to open the help file to figure 
> out how to use it, PD crashes.

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