[PD] Pd-extended 0.43 builds are working again

Thu Oct 6 08:42:56 CEST 2011

Here is an example of what I meant. Also, I included a bonus screenshot of
the 'open' dialog.

Thanks,

JN

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>wrote:

>
> The way I work when testing is to think about having everything running
> smoothly so when I'm inspired, Pd-extended has as smooth a workflow as
> possible.  Then when I working on projects using Pd, I don't hit these
> annoying issues.
>
> As for your abstraction, could you post it here so I can test with it?  Its
> hard to know what's going on just by a description.
>
> .hc
>
> On Oct 5, 2011, at 1:45 AM, Joe Newlin wrote:
>
> I'm more than happy to contribute, but I remember being even happier making
> music. Anyway, I just copied a compiled version of zexy from an older
> installation on another computer and that works fine (so far).
>
> But how about this: an abstraction (named wet-dry-mono.pd) in my working
> directory of patches loads fine in one abstraction but not in another - in
> the same patch.
>
> The abstraction that loads wet-dry-mono.pd ok is in that working directory.
> The abstraction that does not load wet-dry-mono.pd ok is in a subdirectory
> of the working directory, and said subdirectory is loaded using [declare].
> Not sure if those details are significant.
>
> On Oct 4, 2011, at 10:19 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>
>
> Welcome to testing nightly builds!  It is annoying but it must be done,
> otherwise we never have stable builds.  Thanks for contributing! :-D  I
> think only zexy is not working currently.  Its not building right on Windows
> and Mac OS X 10.5.  Everything else should work, let me know if otherwise.
>
> .hc
>
> On Oct 5, 2011, at 12:37 AM, Joe Newlin wrote:
>
> Hans,
>
> I was able to get [declare -path] to work after a little trial and error
> with path name syntax.
>
> Now, I'm curious what I need to do to get the externals in zexy (& maybe
> other libraries - not sure yet) to work at all. For example, [date] and
> [time].
>
> It's frustrating, sometimes, being just a guitar player and not a computer
> programmer.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> -Joe
>
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner < <hans at at.or.at>
> hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>
>>
>> As far as I know, the latency setting in Pd just sets a maximum buffer
>> size, it doesn't necessarily translate to actual measured latency.  Try a
>> blind test and see if you can tell the difference, that'll be a much better
>> test.
>>
>> As for the search paths, you are much better of not setting them as global
>> preferences.  Instead, use the standard install locations for installing
>> things globally:
>>
>> <http://puredata.info/docs/faq/how-do-i-install-externals-and-help-files>
>> http://puredata.info/docs/faq/how-do-i-install-externals-and-help-files
>>
>> And for paths needed for patches/projects, use [declare -path].
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On Oct 4, 2011, at 12:35 PM, Joe Newlin wrote:
>>
>> Okay, I installed the latest version.
>>
>> Good news: Pd-extended and my soundcard are getting along the way they
>> used to. this means setting Pd to 14 ms audio latency which is not great,
>> but I can live with it.
>>
>> Bad news: Pd is not saving the search paths that I add. I can't remember
>> if earlier versions required clicking a "save these settings" kind of thing,
>> but I could find no such option in this version and at any rate it's not
>> saving the paths.
>>
>> Medium news: while I can deal with the 14 ms latency, Pd vanilla was
>> working at around 2 ms (unless it was lying to me or obscuring something - I
>> only tried it with testtone) but I still can't figure out how to get it to
>> load libraries of external dlls. I'm just a guitar player and not a computer
>> programmer so I'm a little slow at this stuff, but if you have a suggestion
>> for this option I would appreciate it.
>>
>> Thanks for all your work!
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner < <hans at at.or.at>
>> hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Lets keep this on the pd-list so that others can participate in the
>>> discussion :)
>>>
>>> I think Martin Peach committed a fix for the pdlua_setup error today or
>>> last night.
>>>
>>> .hc
>>>
>>> On Oct 4, 2011, at 11:05 AM, Marc D. Demers wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hi .hc,
>>>
>>> I was able to get the installer on Windows 7. I was able to get rid of
>>> all the error message by deleting some line in the «path» and «startup»
>>> windows. Mainly, libs that were no more in the pd extra folder. The only
>>> error message I get for the moment is concerning the pdlua folder (unable to
>>> find the symbol of something like that). I will try to find the bug tonight.
>>>
>>> Thank's
>>>
>>> Marc
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > From:  <hans at at.or.at>hans at at.or.at
>>> > To:  <PD-list at iem.at>PD-list at iem.at
>>> > Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 20:57:25 -0400
>>> > Subject: [PD] Pd-extended 0.43 builds are working again
>>>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Ok, after a long time without a decently working Windows build, I think
>>> > we have one that is actually usable. Please give it a try and let me
>>> > know. Here's the zip:
>>> >
>>> > <http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/latest/Pd-0.43.1-extended-windowsxp-i386.zip>
>>> http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/latest/Pd-0.43.1-extended-windowsxp-i386.zip
>>> >
>>> > or the installer:
>>> >
>>> > <http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/latest/Pd-0.43.1-extended-windowsxp-i386.exe>
>>> http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/latest/Pd-0.43.1-extended-windowsxp-i386.exe
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > .hc
>>> >
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