[PD] Fwd: PD crashes on launch + fullscreen workaround

[simon wise]

I recently ran a Gem patch for a 2 week season of a show using pd  
0.38 on a similar Minimac without problems.

0.39 (Pd-0.39test2-extended-RC0 from Hans, Gem 0.90, Macmini 1.42,  
1GB ram, OSX 10.4.2) seems to be stable as well - but [pix_movie]  
seems broken - it plays a very zoomed-in version of quicktime movies  
(all codecs that I have tried), on both the Minimac and my much  
slower old Powerbook (OSX 10.4.2). [pix_film] works fine. The rest of  
the patch seems fine.

[openpanel] also seems to stop responding occasionally, though only  
when I am testing things, never in performance - I think this is when  
I have a file open with [textfile], then try to open the same file  
again with [openpanel] - but I am trying to isolate the problem a bit  
better.




The Macmini has been a great (and not expensive) way to run  
projectors except for one big problem - I only have clumsy  
workarounds to get fullscreen images to the single main display.  
Today I discovered the best yet - but it is still a mess:

OroborOSX has the option of "hide menu and dock" for a presentation  
mode, it also has the option to "interleave X11 and Aqua windows" so  
with Gem running fullscreen I switch to OroborOSX then use Expose  
(all windows) and pick the Gem window

-Gem is now the frontmost window
-OroborOSX remains in focus so there is no menu or dock visible (and  
pd does not put its other windows in front of the gem window)
-and the gem window does not get moved down (exposing its titlebar)  
as usually happens when the other pd windows are hidden or the Gem  
window is the last Aqua window open.

(all my control is via midi so I don't need pd in focus - but even  
using -nogui the terminal window stays in front of the Gem window and  
if that is hidden the Gem window is moved down to show its title bar).

It is clumsy, but it works.

Simon

On 5 Oct 2005, at 3:35 AM, Thomas Grill wrote:


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> jmmmp schrieb:
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>> Hello list,
>>
>> a friend of mine with not so much experience in pd wants to use  
>> one of my  patches in a concert, but had bad luck with the  
>> installation of pd. I  can't help him, because we're 1000 Km apart  
>> and I use windows, he OsX. Has  this happened to anybody before?
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> yes, the pd 0.39 version crashes reliably on my Minimac. Haven't  
> had time to look into it.
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> all the best,
> T
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