[PD] OSX and Tk...

Michael A. Thompson mthomp at mac.com
Thu May 2 22:03:23 CEST 2002


what does the first line of your "path_to_pd/bin/pd.tk" file say? its 
just a plain text file...

m

On Thursday, May 2, 2002, at 08:58  AM, Nick Fells wrote:

> 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
>
>




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