[PD] GUI overload
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at at.or.at
Sat Jan 5 01:08:42 CET 2013
Have you tried using the Pd-extended PPA, there is a Lucid package there:
https://launchpad.net/~eighthave/+archive/pd-extended
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:eighthave/pd-extended
.hc
On Jan 4, 2013, at 6:15 PM, Ed Kelly wrote:
> Hey Hans...
>
> I'm on Lucid (10.04LTS Ubuntu). I've tried to get later Ubuntu versions to run on my new and old machines with no success, so I compiled the source code of Pd-extended 0.43 (2012-12-28 build). All was fine in linux_make/, then I tried "sudo make install" from packages directory.
>
> install -p -m 644 jmmmp-meta.pd \
> /home/edward/software/pd/extended/0.43/pd-extended/packages/build/lib/pd-extended/extra/jmmmp
> test -z "" || (\
> install -p -m 644 /home/edward/software/pd/extended/0.43/pd-extended/packages/build/lib/pd-extended/extra/jmmmp && \
> )
> /bin/sh: Syntax error: ")" unexpected
> make[2]: *** [libdir_install] Error 2
>
> ?
> Ed
>
>
> Gemnotes-0.2: Live music notation for Pure Data, now with dynamics!
> http://sharktracks.co.uk/
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>> To: pd-list at iem.at
>> Cc:
>> Sent: Friday, 28 December 2012, 5:22
>> Subject: Re: [PD] GUI overload
>>
>>
>> Hey Ed,
>>
>> I just committed a couple more fixes for [tgl] and [mknob] that make them only
>> send the GUI updates when something actually has changed. This can greatly
>> reduce the amount of traffic to the GUI.
>>
>> Can you try your patch with the 2012-12-28 build of Pd-extended and see if you
>> still get freezes?
>> http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/2012-12-28/
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On 12/16/2012 08:47 AM, Ed Kelly wrote:
>>> Hi List,
>>>
>>> I'm not going to say whether this is a "recurrent" problem as
>> it's hard to say whether the rewrite of the GUI has affected it...
>>>
>>> I'm using a lot of abstractions with larger GOP or non-GOP GUIs, and I
>> find the following problem occurs. There comes a point where the GUI objects
>> stop responding in a patch when it is reloaded. I am wondering if there is a
>> specific limit to GUI objects that could be changed. I think Pd is making some
>> kind of decision that "there's too much of this stuff - I'm gonna
>> prioritize the audio and not worry about it" and I'd like to know how
>> or if it is possible to control this process from within Pd, or by setting flags
>> on the command line.
>>>
>>> I'm also making less GUI intensive versions for performance time, since
>> the really big GUI patches are often pattern-sequencers which I will not want to
>> program when I am performing. Example patch enclosed to give you an idea. The
>> really GUI-intensive objects are the trackers, especially quadtracker (which I
>> think has pushed the GUI of Pd patches about as far as I can go now).
>>>
>>> System: quad core i5 PC running Ubuntu (10.04 Lucid), Pd-0.43-4, lots of
>> externals compiled and loaded.
>>>
>>> Warm wishes,
>>> Ed
>>>
>>> Gemnotes-0.2: Live music notation for Pure Data, now with dynamics!
>>> http://sharktracks.co.uk/
>>>
>>>
>>>
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