thanks for the quick reply Derek. ill try what you suggest instead.<br><br>john<br><br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(192, 192, 192);">Jonesints</span><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 09/01/2008,
<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 John,<br><br>John Cohen wrote:<br>> Ive had no problem with pd so far but recently i tried creating the<br>> "counter" object and I've always had the same error "couldn't create<br>> counter. I'm pretty certain the object exists in pd since i saw it in a
<br>> couple of tutorials..<br>> am i missing a special library to get this object?<br><br>Well, ermm, several actually. In a way. The problem is that the<br>namespace for [counter] is a bit polluted, meaning that there are
<br>different versions of [counter] in different libraries which do<br>different things. I don't recall which libraries have one, so I never<br>use any of them!<br><br>In the help files, help/2.control.examples/05.counter.pd and
<br>06.more.counters.pd are the standard ways of counting. See also the help<br>file for [mod].<br><br>> also, i would very much want to see a list of objects available in pd. i<br>> haven't seen one so far, so its difficult to know what objects are
<br>> installed and i can count with!<br>> thanks for your help<br><br>There's one for the core PD objects in help/5.reference/0.INTRO.txt<br>Externals change from time to time, making it difficult to keep<br>everything current. Here's a(n incomplete) list I made some time back:
<br><br><a href="http://flossmanuals.net/PureData/ListofObjects">http://flossmanuals.net/PureData/ListofObjects</a><br><br>best,<br>d.<br><br>--<br>derek holzer ::: <a href="http://www.umatic.nl">http://www.umatic.nl</a> :::
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