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

[Paris Treantafeles]

thanks - i'm trying it out .

-p

On Thursday, March 24, 2005, at 07:07  PM, Thomas Ouellet Fredericks 
wrote:

> 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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