[PD] finally using PD on OSX

Miller Puckette mpuckett at man104-1.ucsd.edu
Mon May 27 04:32:37 CEST 2002


Well, I never heard of a mac with more than a 1-button mouse, but as far
as the Tcl/Tk code is concerned, button-3 is bound the same way on Mac as on
PC, so I guess it must still work...

cheers
Miller

On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 01:54:27AM +0200, Yves Degoyon wrote:
> <apple>click would just be fine for me....
> 
> but, just for finding out, how come
> it worked with a three mouse button
> and more surprisingly, it worked with the
> middle button ??
> 
> it must send a key sequence that activates the popup menu
> with "Help" and "Properties", right ??
> 
> cheers,
> yves
> 
> Miller Puckette wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >You can only get properties in edit mode in OSX.  I could assign some crazy
> >key combination to do that for "locked" ("run mode") patches, but I found
> >out pretty fast that it's bad to have double-click do this (tried to
> >switch a toggle on and off quickly and instead got the dialog!)
> >
> >cheers
> >Miller
> >
> >On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 01:27:18AM +0200, Yves Degoyon wrote:
> >
> >>hi,
> >>
> >>i finally came up with a usable version
> >>of PD for OSX but one thing really bothers me:
> >>
> >>i can only get properties in edition mode
> >>by double-clicking on an object.
> >>
> >>i didn't find the way of getting properties menu
> >>in performance mode, there must be
> >>a magic combination of keys to get this,
> >>i tried <apple>click, <shift><apple>click, ... with no success.
> >>
> >>in fact, it worked when i plugged a 3-button mouse
> >>to the iBook but i'd rather not do this.
> >>
> >>cheers,
> >>
> >>yves
> >>
> >
> >
> 



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