[PD] pd <--> maxmsp compatibility

[volker böhm]

hi joao,
nice to hear/read from you!
>
> careful with mistake number 1: in Pd all objects are made for  
> floats. almost only [i] is for ints.

yes, thanks, i'm aware of these basic and important differences.

> this might be useful for you: I've made better versions of the  
> documentation files (afaik, the more complete there are). One of  
> them, the 0.Intro.txt file, you can get at http://puredata.info/ 
> Members/jmmmp. That was done some years ago, before Pd-ext existed  
> (but many externals already did).
> I'm trying to do another one, with the latest version of pd-ext.  
> It's still incomplete, but you can see if it helps something. it's  
> attached.

yes, this is definitely helpful, so, thanks for that.
>
> simple: if you go to extra/ext13 (folder where this external is,  
> check it by opening the help file or doing a search on your disk),  
> you see there's no uzi.[whatever] file, but just kalashnikov.[???]  
> [in windows, these files are **.dll, don't know the endings in  
> unix]. That means that to open this object, you must do kalashnikov  
> first; only after is the namespace uzi in memory. You might see who  
> did the ext13 externals and speak with him, it's the best way to  
> have it corrected.

ok, i've seen this before (in max), but i don't see, what this is  
good for.
well, not so important to me right now.

>
>> i've tried pd-extended 0.40.3 form this site http://puredata.info/
>> downloads
>> when i launch this, i get a lot of errors:
>> cyclone: can't load library
>> zexy: can't load library
>> creb: can't load library
>> cxc: can't load library
>> ...
>>
>> do i need to reset some preferences?
>
> I can't advise on macs, but did you check the file->path menu? or  
> mac guys could say where these settings are kept.

yes, i did check the preferences and the path menu, but to be honest,  
this doesn't look very functional at all...
i searched the archives and a lot of people seem to have difficulties  
with the preferences.
i read about .pdrc, which should/could be a solution, but then in  
another post (from 2005!) i read this is deprecated and so on.

so, my main question right now is, where and how does pd store it's  
preferences and how can i edit those (permanently) - on osx?

it does work for me with pd-extended-0.39.3 for some reason (even if  
i move the app folder around or rename it).
but in pd-extended-0.40.4 i can't edit the preferences gui - looks  
broken to me...
i might start a new thread about this issue.

so, thanks for your answers joao,
best wishes,
volker.