[PD] I am a new user confused as to why I cant get GEM object to work.

[Simon Wise]

this missed the rest of the list, the link is useful ..

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Your a legend :)

for anyone else who may want this I got the X11 update here:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10464

having installed that GEM now works for me.

brilliant back to trying to understand physical modeling

thanks

Geoff


On 24 Feb 2009, at 02:47, Simon Wise wrote:

> Geoff wrote:
>> Hi
>> tried killing both preference files related to PD
>> Still no joy :(
>> Within the start up of PD there are problems mentioned to do with  
>> X11  i,e, wrong architecture.
>> But I wouldn't really know what that meant.
>> thanks for the ideas.
>> geoff
>> Referenced from: /Applications/Pd-extended.app/Contents/Resources/  
>> extra/pdp.pd_darwin
>>    Reason: no suitable image found.  Did find:
>> 	/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
>> pdp: can't load library
>> /Applications/Pd-extended.app/Contents/Resources/extra/  
>> pidip.pd_darwin: dlopen(/Applications/Pd-extended.app/Contents/  
>> Resources/extra/pidip.pd_darwin, 10): Library not loaded: /usr/ 
>> X11R6/ lib/libX11.6.dylib
>>    Referenced from: /Applications/Pd-extended.app/Contents/ 
>> Resources/ extra/pidip.pd_darwin
>>    Reason: no suitable image found.  Did find:
>> 	/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.6.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture
>> pidip: can't load library
>
> Is the install DVD you used the original for your machine? The mac- 
> intel X11 is NOT the same as the mac-ppc X11, it seems perhaps you  
> may have installed the wrong one. Though apple doesn't provide X11  
> for download [maybe they hope to sell more upgrade disks this way??  
> or just are not too keen on making it easy to use non-quartz  
> apps??] it can be found hosted by some generous souls if you  
> google, I found it for a friend who needed it for Gimp recently,  
> she did not have her original disks anywhere handy, and the only  
> copy I had was for ppc.
>
> Simon