[PD] [Gem] pix-texture problem on windows

[Thomas Mayer]

zmoelnig at iem.at wrote:
> the diagram shows: one [gemhead] is uploading an image to the gfx-card  
> via [pix_texture].
> another gemhead uses this texture and displays it onto a square.
> 
> the 2nd outlet of [pix_texture] should output enough information, so  
> that another [pix_texture] (without a pix in the chain), can re-use  
> the same texture when it get's the info in its 2nd inlet.

Yes, that describes my setup exactly.

> thomas: what is the problem? "not working" is a rather vague description.
> i recently discovered that the output of the 1st pix-texture would  
> give wrong texture coordinates when using normalized textures  
> (power-of-two sized).
> the w32-binaries certainly still have this bug.

The square is not visible, neither with or without texture, no error
output in the Pd console.

> for now i can think of two workarounds:
> - if your machine/build supports it, try using rectangle-textures and  
> see if it works.