[PD] Re: Mac OS X installer with library documentation

[Thomas Ouellet Fredericks]

I also have a packaged os x pd at : http://data-art.uqam.ca/telechargement.php
I also tried Burt's but it did not work.

Tom

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:34:23 -0500, Paris Treantafeles
<paris at parisgraphics.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just got around to installing this and was wondering if it only runs
> on 10.3?
> I am using OS X v 10.2.8 and can run previous pd mac version pd-0.38-2
> but when i try to run this one nothing happens at all.
> 
> Thanks,
> paris
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, March 16, 2005, at 01:39  PM, Burt wrote:
> 
> >
> > Greetings again,
> >
> > I have posted a new version of an installer for OS X.
> >
> > http://pcm.peabody.jhu.edu/~sburt/pd/installing_pd_os_x.html
> >
> > Rob Lycett requested that I add the comport library and its
> > documentation, so I did.  I was also frustrated by tcl/tk handling of
> > submenus within submenus.  If anyone knows how to do this, please let
> > me know.  So, I placed the 7.stuff subdirectories directly into the
> > Help menu which is not elegant and only temporary.  I also added a
> > zexy submenu to Help (which I had previously forgotten).  So, now
> > there should be easy to find documentation on basic PD objects, the
> > libraries Gem, vasp, pmpd, Han's hid, and Zexy, plus everything inside
> > the stuff folder including (now) comport.
> >
> > I feel that a better way to organize the Help menu (with my segregated
> > library approach) would be to do it with submenus for PD and major
> > libraries and an extra folder for smaller things:
> >
> > PD Documentation/
> >     HTML manual/
> >     control examples/
> >     audio examples/
> >     fft examples/
> > Gem/
> > pmpd/
> > vasp/
> > zexy/
> > extras/
> >     hid/
> >     comport/
> >     stuff/
> >        audio playpen/
> >        data-structures/
> >        soundfile-tools/
> >        synth/
> >        tools/
> >
> > Unfortunately, this would require a restructuring of PD documentation
> > as it is now, and I would have to understand how to create submenus in
> > submenus in tcl/tk.  Can anyone do this?  What would be really cool
> > would be to adjust the Pd script so that Help documentation of a
> > particular library does not appear until the library is loaded.  That
> > way, we avoid users opening help patches and getting messages about
> > objects not existing (or worse yet, PD crashing).
> >
> >
> > Samuel Burt
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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