[PD] Pd and sounds are running but windows are blank

Dario Sanfilippo sanfilippo.dario at gmail.com
Tue Jan 26 17:52:14 CET 2021


Thanks, Dan. This seemed to work. But is it normal that the displayed
values are still single-precision?

Best,
Dario

On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 at 14:12, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do *not* install Pd to a system path unless you are using a newer version
> of Tcl/Tk as the included 8.5.9 is quite broken: blank windows, etc. As
> noted in INSTALL.txt:
>
> https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/blob/master/INSTALL.txt#L268
>
> I know this is tempting, especially for those coming from Linux, but there
> are a number of issues with using Pd on macOS like this, including
> application defaults keys not working as launching a Tk script for the
> command line will not connect it to app bundle plist settings which are
> included within a Pd .app, etc. If you want to invoke Pd on the command
> line, I recommend using a shell alias as documented in INSTALL.txt as well.
>
> The safest bet is to build a Pd .app using "make app" although I'm not
> sure if the included pre-build Tcl/Tk Wish .app is up to date with Miller's
> releases yet:
>
>     make
>     make app
>
> This results in a Pd-0.51-4.app in the main Pd source tree. I'd recommend
> right-clicking and renaming it to "Pd-0.51-4-double.app" if you have
> multiple versions on the same machine.
>
> Also, the deprecation warning is from the system (macOS) and not from Pd.
> It basically means that Apple will remove the included Tcl/Tk from macOS in
> the future. Note: It is still shipped with macOS 11 but is unfortunately
> the broken 8.5.9 version.
>
> On Jan 11, 2021, at 12:00 PM, pd-list-request at lists.iem.at wrote:
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 17:18:24 +0100
> From: Dario Sanfilippo <sanfilippo.dario at gmail.com>
> To: Christof Ressi <info at christofressi.com>
> Cc: Pd-List <pd-list at lists.iem.at>
> Subject: Re: [PD] Pd and sounds are running but windows are blank
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> My apologies, Christof, I forgot. :-)
>
> That's right, I'm on 10.15.7. My Tclsh version is 8.5.
>
> Thanks,
> Dario
>
> On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 at 16:26, Christof Ressi <info at christofressi.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> it always helps to mention the OS ;-) I assume you're on macOS?
>
> Christof
> On 10.01.2021 15:27, Dario Sanfilippo wrote:
>
> Hello, list.
>
> I'm giving a try to Pd double precision; I installed .51-4 using the
> autotools.
>
> My patch is running and producing signals, although all windows are blank.
> If I right-click, I can open the abstractions, blank again. I see a
> deprecation warning about Tk, any clue what the issue could be?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
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