[PD] Opening a PD patch on Startup in OSX

[Greg Pond]

I dont know how you have set this to work on your machine but I have
set my gallery installs on mac os x 10.4 systems to autostart by doing
the following:

1. setting the "open at login" option for PD from the dock

2. setting the start up path in "start up flags" box within
preferences>startup menu

I havent encountered the problem that you have but I dont shutdown my
machines at night. Is there some reason you need to?

Here are two simple ways I have used that might work instead ( I dont
know what you are running with PD ( gem, etc...) but they could be
modified to suit:

1. use a 24 hour clock patch ( really just a resetting counter and is
attached) that turns the DSP ( or whatever is appropriate ) on/off or
closes and opens the other patch at certain times instead of
restarting entire computer

2. use an arduino and a light sensor to turn off the DSP when the
lights are shut off at night



On 9/23/07, Stuart Jones <s.jones at csm.arts.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I have a patch running an installation on a Mac laptop running 10.4.9. The
> laptop is scheduled to shut down at night and start up in the morning. The
> PD patch is on the desktop with a folder containing samples it is
> controlling, and there's nothing else on the desktop except the hard drive.
> From time to time when it starts the computer goes to the finder after
> opening the patch; this seems to be completely random and happens about one
> start up in 5. Does anybody have an explanation? And a way of getting round
> this problem? It needs to be fail safe as I'm not around during the run of
> the installation.
>
> Thanks
>
> Stuart
>
>
>
>
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