[PD] HID Crashing

[Clifford Dunn]

Thanks Derek,

Doing this did help me open the help file. However, a new can of worms has
opened from this.

I can't seem to find much helpful information about the [hid] object in the
helpfile. In fact, the only time the [hid] object appears in this patch it
doesn't have any inlets or outlets. Maybe it's not necessary. I would like
to know what these in/outlets are for this object though.

Also, the [hid] object does seem to be directly responsible for my crashes.
It's rather irregular, but if I click on the object enough, PD will
definitely crash. I've tried to create an [hid] object without a physical
device (i.e. [hid 5]), but the crashing will still happen.

Are there people regularly using HID with OS X?

Thanks again,

Clifford Dunn
www.myspace.com/clifforddunn

On 06/04/07, Derek Holzer <derek at umatic.nl> wrote:
>
> Hi Clifford,
>
> I've seen this problem on OS X a lot in my workshops. [hid] works fine,
> but something in the help file crashes it. Has to do with one of the
> messages in the help patch causing [hid] to try to open one of the
> built-in Mac HID devices (trackpad, keyboard, etc), which it doesn't like.
>
> Here's a quick fix: open the [hid] help patch in TextEdit or some other
> text editor, and change the creation argument to something above the
> number of built in Mac HID devices. [hid 5] should work, for example.
> Remember to save as extension .pd! Then you should be able to open the
> help patch and get more information.
>
> best,
> d.
>
> Clifford Dunn wrote:
> > Hello list. I'm relatively new to PD and I'm trying to see how HID works
> > in it. I'm using the most recent version of PD-Extended, the preference
> > files are fine, and I'm running OS X 10.4.8 on a PPC Powerbook.
> >
> > I can't seem to get [hid] to work. I can create the [hid] object and it
> > seems to be ok...there's a slight pause in the system as it seems like
> > it needs to load something. When I try to open the help file to figure
> > out how to use it, PD crashes.
>
> --
> derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl
> ---Oblique Strategy # 181:
> "What would your closest friend do?"
>
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