[PD] [PD-announce] Pd-extended 0.43.4 release candidate 1: last chance to report your bugs

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

The MIDI port fix works fine, that will stay in.  I'm only talking about Media->"Audio Settings..." not Media->"MIDI Settings...".  

.hc

On Jan 17, 2013, at 3:12 AM, Seiichiro MATSUMURA wrote:

> Hi Hans,
> 
> I see.
> I think the old behavior that indicates Japanese name of MIDI port as
> blank is not a major problem because I already find out the solution
> by changing it to English name. I agree with your reverting.
> I would announce it in my Pd blog.
> 
> About &character in the label problem, I will test new build later.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Sei
> 
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>> I hope the old behavior works for you, because it turns out that its quite a bit more complicated than I
>> thought, so its not the kind of change that should be made without lots of time for testing on many
>> different setups with different audio devices.
> 
> 
> 2013/1/17 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>:
>> 
>> Hey Sei,
>> 
>> I hope the old behavior works for you, because it turns out that its quite a bit more complicated than I thought, so its not the kind of change that should be made without lots of time for testing on many different setups with different audio devices.  I reverted my change that only affect portaudio, i.e. when you select a device name in Pd-extended's Audio Settings.
>> 
>> .hc
>> 
>> On Jan 16, 2013, at 11:50 AM, Seiichiro MATSUMURA wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Hans,
>>> 
>>> I changed the name of IAC driver then tested the latest one. I could
>>> see the Japanese Audio and MIDI driver name, but some strange strings
>>> attached to the tail of the driver name. Sometimes they are not
>>> Japanese nor English, some characters I can't read.
>>> More weird thing is that every time I restart Pd-extended, that
>>> attached strings are changed. there is no rule of this changing.
>>> see attached jpegs.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> 
>>> Sei
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 2013/1/16 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>:
>>>> 
>>>> Hey Sei,
>>>> 
>>>> I'm pretty sure I fixed the issues with the Audio and MIDI names being in Japanese.  Can you test it on your machine and confirm?  I can't make the Audio names have Japanese in them on my 10.6 system, so I have no way to test it.
>>>> 
>>>> .hc
>>>> 
>>>> On Jan 7, 2013, at 10:01 PM, Seiichiro MATSUMURA wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi HC,
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Mac OSX（10.7 Lion）, "Audio setting" and "MIDI setting" under
>>>>> "Media" menu are still buggy.
>>>>> I often have freeze Pd when I change settings and I need to restart Pd.
>>>>> 
>>>>> This is just another question.
>>>>> What is the difference between "Edit mode(shift+Cmd+E)" and "Edit
>>>>> mode(Cmd+E)" under "Edit" menu?
>>>>> I can't understand the specific function of "Edit mode(shift+Cmd+E)" added.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sei Matsumura
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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>>>>> Seiichiro Matsumura
>>>>> 
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>>>>> 
>>>>> 2013/1/8 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I think this is the final release, last chance to test your patches and make
>>>>>> sure everything is working well in this release.  Also, double-check the
>>>>>> translations.  I'll do one final import of translations from Transifex before
>>>>>> finalizing it.  Download here:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://puredata.info/downloads/pd-extended/releases/0.43.4
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Its been a long time coming, but its finally reached completion!  This release
>>>>>> includes the most new features of any release before, here are some highlights:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> * complete help search: search all installed docs (Help->Search)
>>>>>> * loaders: you can now write native Pd objects in Lua (pdlua) and Tcl (tclpd)
>>>>>> * new libraries: log, iemguts, mediasettings, pduino, syslog
>>>>>> * GUI plugins: customize your editing experience
>>>>>> * full Unicode support, write patches in any language
>>>>>> * fully translatable GUI, with many languages already included
>>>>>> * Magic Glass to see what's going through connections as it happens
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> And much more: http://puredata.info/dev/NextRelease
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Download it here:
>>>>>> http://puredata.info/downloads/pd-extended/releases/0.43.4
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Or if you are using Ubuntu/Mint, you can use the PPA:
>>>>>> https://launchpad.net/~eighthave/+archive/pd-extended/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> run these commands in the Terminal to add this PPA to your system:
>>>>>> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:eighthave/pd-extended
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> There are some bugs that will have to wait until the next release:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> * Windows command line args don't work with unicode
>>>>>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3595309&group_id=55736&atid=478070
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> * [initbang] worked with GUI objs in 0.42 but not in 0.43
>>>>>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3599058&group_id=55736&atid=478070
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> * Right-click menu causes CPU spike
>>>>>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3525646&group_id=55736&atid=478070
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> * specific kinds of "GUI overload"
>>>>>> http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2012-12/099534.html
>>>>>> 
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