Thanks Derek,<br><br>Doing this did help me open the help file. However, a new can of worms has opened from this.<br><br>I can't seem to find much helpful information about the [hid] object in the helpfile. In fact, the only time the [hid] object appears in this patch it doesn't have any inlets or outlets. Maybe it's not necessary. I would like to know what these in/outlets are for this object though.
<br><br>Also, the [hid] object does seem to be directly responsible for my crashes. It's rather irregular, but if I click on the object enough, PD will definitely crash. I've tried to create an [hid] object without a physical device (
i.e. [hid 5]), but the crashing will still happen. <br><br>Are there people regularly using HID with OS X?<br><br>Thanks again,<br><br>Clifford Dunn<br><a href="http://www.myspace.com/clifforddunn">www.myspace.com/clifforddunn
</a><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 06/04/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Derek Holzer</b> <<a href="mailto:derek@umatic.nl">derek@umatic.nl</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Clifford,<br><br>I've seen this problem on OS X a lot in my workshops. [hid] works fine,<br>but something in the help file crashes it. Has to do with one of the<br>messages in the help patch causing [hid] to try to open one of the
<br>built-in Mac HID devices (trackpad, keyboard, etc), which it doesn't like.<br><br>Here's a quick fix: open the [hid] help patch in TextEdit or some other<br>text editor, and change the creation argument to something above the
<br>number of built in Mac HID devices. [hid 5] should work, for example.<br>Remember to save as extension .pd! Then you should be able to open the<br>help patch and get more information.<br><br>best,<br>d.<br><br>Clifford Dunn wrote:
<br>> Hello list. I'm relatively new to PD and I'm trying to see how HID works<br>> in it. I'm using the most recent version of PD-Extended, the preference<br>> files are fine, and I'm running OS X
10.4.8 on a PPC Powerbook.<br>><br>> I can't seem to get [hid] to work. I can create the [hid] object and it<br>> seems to be ok...there's a slight pause in the system as it seems like<br>> it needs to load something. When I try to open the help file to figure
<br>> out how to use it, PD crashes.<br><br>--<br>derek holzer ::: <a href="http://www.umatic.nl">http://www.umatic.nl</a><br>---Oblique Strategy # 181:<br>"What would your closest friend do?"<br></blockquote>
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