[PD] mac - osx experiment

[Miller Puckette]

Hi,

In TK on OSX, the "-initialdir" setting to the open and save panels
is broken.  You can search in u_main.tk and bin/pd.tk and patch these
by replacing the two remaining such lines:

    	-initialdir $help_directory]

by:
	]

and:

    set filename [tk_getSaveFile -initialfile $initfile -initialdir $initdir \

by:

    set filename [tk_getSaveFile -initialfile $initfile  \

(i'll do this in my copy too but I'm not going to get it turned around
real fast..  Anyway, I think TK will fix this real soon and we can go back to
the "right" version.)

cheers
Miller


On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 05:53:28PM +1100, ~~~~~~ wrote:
> Just some feedback on the osx version for whoever's interested.
> 
> Yes latency is big, and there are some problems with keystrokes (backspace)
> - sometimes I cannot use the keyboard at all (even ctrl-O/W/X/V etc) -
> doesn't seem to be rhyme or reason to this - sometimes takes a couple of
> restarts. Sometimes opening a patch will 'break' the keyboard input.
> 
> Loading some properties patches will crash pd sometimes - but it's not
> reliable.. Ie happens 'sometimes' and not others
> 
> As with clicking in the window in locked or ctrl-clicking in edit mode - it
> seems to work on messages and atoms sometimes and not others - is this some
> thing to do with the latency? (happens with dsp on & off)
> 
> The biggest problem for me at the moment is that saving doesn't seem to
> work.
> 
> I can save an opened .pd patch - say I'm looking at and edit acoustics~.pd
> 
> So ctrl-s =
> saved to: /Users/myhome/Documents/pd/doc/5.reference/acoustics~.pd
> 
> But save as.. From the file menu =
> 
> HandleInitialDir
> bad directory "/Users/myhome/Documents/pd/doc/5.reference"
> 
> Likewise save or crtl-s or save as.. For any new document give the same
> response 
> 
> HandleInitialDir
> bad directory "/Users/myhome"
> 
> Not that I'm complaining mind you .. It is very cool to have it running at
> all. :)
> 
>