[PD] OSX and Tk...

[Nick Fells]

Hi,

Hmm - that foxes me a bit. Try putting 'Wish Shell' in the pd/bin
directory??

I'll try a rebuild of pd when I get a chance, see what happens then.

Nick

Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999 wrote:
> 
> Hello Nick, List
> 
> I tried downloading and installing tk for OSX again and I'm still having
> no luck. I have "Wish Shell" in applications. I have tcl.framework and
> tk.framework both in /library/frameworks. The wish shell works fine, I
> have PD in my home directory.
> 
> When I run ./pd -nosound in the terminal I get a bunch of output stuff,
> buffers, channels etc. but no GUI.
> 
> I did notice something different this time, when I run pd I get a
> bouncing unkown application icon on the console. then the bouncing stops
> (I assume once PD has been loaded) I can click on the unkown icon in the
> console, in thoery to focus the GUI, but all it does is unfocus all
> windows and give me a spinning busy pointer...
> 
> I looked in the system.log and nothing of interest... could pd be causing
> errors in other logs?
> 
> I'm using MacOS 10.1.3
> 
> Thanks
> Ben
> 
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Nick Fells wrote:
> 
> > Hi Ben, just a last ditch attempt at help - did you put the tk framework
> > stuff into /Library?
> >
> > nck
> >
> > Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999 wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I was having the same problem as Nick but running pd -nosound did not
> > > solve the problem. I get:
> > >
> > > MIDI: not yet implimented
> > > in 2 out 2 rate 44100
> > > using default device number -1
> > > nchan 2, flags 3, bufs 8, framesperbuf 256
> > >
> > > and then nothing, no GUI. I tested wish by itself and it works fine.
> > > (installed according to the install guide that tcl/tk for OSX came with)
> > >
> > > running ./pd -nosound and ./pd both do the same thing. I suppose I should
> > > just try compiling?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Ben
> > >
> > > On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Nick Fells wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Yep, sure enough that works (but no sound, obviously...)... any fixes
> > > > would be gladly welcomed!!.... (also obvious, I guess).
> > > >
> > > > Another thing I noticed - in the menus under osx there's a 'tear off'
> > > > option. If you happen to select it, all the menus appear to stop
> > > > working...
> > > >
> > > > thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Nick
> > > >
> > > > Miller Puckette wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > I saw this behavior on a machine where Pd couldn't open audio -- it just
> > > > > hangs.  I hope to fix this.  In the meantime, if you've got the same
> > > > > problem, just run "pd -nosound" and it should start up...
> > > > >
> > > > > cheers
> > > > > Miller
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 06:28:55PM +0100, Nick Fells wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm just trying to setup pd under osx. I've downloaded/unpacked Tk8.4
> > > > > > from the sourcefourge site 'snapshot', put the Frameworks under
> > > > > > /Library, and put the Wish Shell.app under /Applications. But I can't
> > > > > > get Pd to start the gui - there's no error message, just nothing
> > > > > > happens.
> > > > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Dr Nick Fells,
> > > > Music Department,
> > > > University of Glasgow,                Tel: +44 (0) 141-330 4096
> > > > Glasgow G12 8QQ                       Fax: +44 (0) 141-330 3518
> > > > UK.                           http://www.music.gla.ac.uk/~nick
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > B. Bogart
> > > ---------
> >
> > --
> > Dr Nick Fells,
> > Music Department,
> > University of Glasgow,                Tel: +44 (0) 141-330 4096
> > Glasgow G12 8QQ                       Fax: +44 (0) 141-330 3518
> > UK.                           http://www.music.gla.ac.uk/~nick
> >
> >
> 
> B. Bogart
> ---------

-- 
Dr Nick Fells,	
Music Department,
University of Glasgow,		Tel: +44 (0) 141-330 4096
Glasgow G12 8QQ			Fax: +44 (0) 141-330 3518
UK.				http://www.music.gla.ac.uk/~nick