[PD] some observations and questions on Pd-ext 0.43.1 beta

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Mar 9, 2012, at 8:21 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 12:06 +0000, Marco Donnarumma wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> yesterday I tried my Xth Sense system on a student's machine running Ubuntu
>> 11.10 and Pd-ext 0.43.1 from the latest autobuilds.
>> 
>> - Strangely enough, Pd would start with real-time flag at anytime (from a
>> launcher of from a terminal without any flag).
>> We had to do $ pd-extended -nrt to get rid of the real time.
>> Why this happens?
> 
> I experience the same.

Its set in the embedded preferences for Pd-extended (/usr/lib/pd-extended/default.pdextended) I figured that made sense for most users of Pd-extended, but I'm willing to reconsider if it causes problems.


>> - is Flatspace being removed from Pd-ext?
>> I couldn't find it in the extra folder. I needed it for [line3]
> 
> From what I know, flatspace has been removed, but the class should be
> still found at its original location. 
> 
> I just checked. It seems that it is from nusmuk, but there is no nusmuk
> library in the current autobuilds. Don't know if it was every included
> as a library.

flatspace and nusmuk both don't have maintainers in Pd-extended, and that's why they are not included.  Here's the list of what's included and who are the maintainers:

http://puredata.info/docs/LibrariesInPdExtended


>> - The GUI has a bad responsiveness, nbx are slow, sliders and graphs are
>> updated every 1 second or similar. Usually it works flawlessly both on
>> Linux 10.04 and older and OSX.
>> Is this being experienced by someone else with the same system?
> 
> I am on ubuntu 11.04 and do not experience this. Does this also happen
> with only a tiny patch loaded or only when the Xth sense stuff is
> loaded?
> 
> Roman

Are you using Tcl/Tk 8.5?  Can you post the patch somewhere so I can try it?  I haven't seen any such slowness on Ubuntu or Mac OS X.

.hc



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