[PD] PD Mac-Intel: typing causes audio glitches

[Phil Stone]

I've been playing with Miller's experimental version for Intel OS X (see 
http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/Software/pd-imac-test.mac.tar.gz )
and for the most part, it works great.

Some minor problems exist; for instance, the GOP dialog color selectors 
don't display any color.  But one thing is driving me crazy, and I'm not 
sure if it's specific to Intel-Mac, or if it's been a problem with PD on 
the Mac before this (I'm switching from the Windows version):

Typing on the computer keyboard (e.g. to enter something in a number 
box) after focus has just transferred to PD, makes a crunch or pop in 
the sound right at the moment of the first key press.  Subsequent key 
presses do not interfere with the sound, until focus is switched to 
another app (or maybe even another PD window -- I can't reproduce this 
very consistently) and then is returned to PD. 

I've tried different latency settings and this has had no effect.

This seems like some bad interaction between the OS key-handling and 
PD.  I suppose it could be some OS X external (like Dashboard) that is 
causing this, but I thought I'd check the list to see if this behavior 
is familiar to anybody before I start ripping apart my configuration. 
Particularly, I'd like to know if this behavior has appeared on  PPC OS 
X PD?

Thanks,

Phil Stone
pkstone....ucdavis....edu