[PD] [PD-announce] Pd-0.40.3-extended-rc1 released

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I am cc'ing the list since this is of general interest.

People at ZHdK helped me find this bug while I was there in Zürich,  
it should be fixed in the most recent nightly builds.

.hc

On Jun 12, 2008, at 9:51 AM, Kjetil Falkenberg Hansen wrote:

> Hi, sorry if I breach any emailing policies by answering to you  
> directly...
>
> I tried the latest version, and as far as I can tell everything I  
> use run smoothly, except one. My Arduino-boards  (Diecimila)  
> suddenly stopped sending input to pd (I use your patch and the  
> standard Firmata). The boards connect, but I get the messages
>
> [comport] opened serial line device 15 (COM15)
>
> moocow/string2any 32 -1
> ... couldn't create
> [arduino]: version_0.4
> UNKNOWN_INPUT_COMMAND: 6 0
>
> Since moocow/string2any doesn't seem to appear in any of the used  
> patches, I don't know if that's the problem. Hope I was clear  
> enough in the not-quite-a-bug-report report. I use WinXP.
>
> Greetings from KTH Stockholm,
> Kjetil
>
> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> For this release, there has been a lot of work in making the GUI  
>> and  user experience much more fluid and easy. There is a new  
>> visual look  that was designed to make patches more readable.  
>> Additionally, lots  of things have been tweaked to make Pd behave  
>> more like a normal app.  There has already been a lot of testing  
>> on these builds, so it is  getting quite close to a final version.  
>> (Debian/PowerPC is missing  now but will come later)
>>
>> http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers.html
>>
>> Here is a partial changelog:
>>
>> - next visual appearance designed for readability (it can run  
>> slower  on machines < 1 GHz)
>>
>> - default locations for user-installed externals, helpfiles, etc.
>>   GNU/Linux:  /usr/share/pd and ~/pd
>>   Mac OS X: /Library/Pd and ~/Library/Pd
>>   Windows: %ProgramFiles%/Common Files/Pd and %UserProfile%/  
>> Application Data/Pd
>>
>> - lots of standard key bindings added:
>> 	Enter/Return for OK
>> 	Escape for Cancel
>> 	Ctrl/Cmd-W closes all windows
>> 	on Mac OS X, Cmd-` cycles thru open windows
>> 	on Mac OS X, Cmd-m minimizes windows
>> 	Ctrl/Cmd-R raises/lowers Pd window
>> 	Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-R shrinks/grows Pd window
>> 	Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-L clears Pd window's text console
>> 	Ctrl/Cmd-B opens the Help Browser
>>
>> - you can now use "~" in all paths to mean home folder, and on   
>> Windows you can use environment variables, lie %UserProfile% in paths
>>
>> - cut/copy/paste now work directly into text boxes on all platforms
>>
>> - [declare] and [import] now sorted out for loading, much work  
>> needs  to be done before there namespace support is complete
>>
>> - "File -> Save As" defaults to the Home folder (~/)
>>
>> - fixed Cut/Copy/Paste for the Pd window's console
>>
>> - included pgp_opengl aka 3dp on GNU/Linux and Mac OS X
>>
>> KNOWN BUGS
>>
>> - check http://puredata.info/dev/bugtracker before reporting bugs
>>
>> - Escape, Enter, and Ctrl/Cmd-W don't close the Path and Startup   
>> preferences
>>
>> - pdp_opengl is alpha and will definitely crash Pd
>>
>> - loading pdp_opengl will crash Pd if X11 is not open before  
>> trying  to load it
>>
>>
>> .hc
>>
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