[PD] OSX and Tk...

[Nick Fells]

Hi Michael,

Thanks, yep i got your earlier mail about this - indeed it does say

set pd_nt 2

But I didn't have to change anything (that's what it says in the current
'OSX test' tarball version...)

Nick


"Michael A. Thompson" wrote:
> 
> 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
> >
> >

-- 
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