I've been trying all night to get PD working on my mac, Mojave (10.14.6) PD 0.50 Mac 64 bit, and I can't seem to get a working GUI, has anyone run into this before? I don't see any mention of someone else having this problem, wondering if it's just me.. Maybe I need to re-install Mojave? I tried compiling from source, and even tried the 32 bit version and had the same problem (actually was worse, couldn't read buttons).

Just a black screen, blue outlines on PD objects.. Any ideas?

@forrestbaer I've had this problem with tcl/tk 5 compiled for mojave.. did you compile it yourself or are you using miller's tcl/tk? Using the supplied tcl/tk or one from before mojave should work ok in my experience..
see this thread from the mailing list: https://www.mail-archive.com/pd-dev@lists.iem.at/msg02102.html

Hmm, thanks Seb but it looks like that didn't help. I tried:

• I upgraded my tcl/tk to 8.6 via brew
• Turned off "dark mode" in settings and rebooted
• Tried re-compiling using new tcl/tk
• Tried re-running pre-compiled 0.50-0 for my platform

No dice.. Thinking I need to just run it on a virtual linux machine..

Note that the last macOS update broke recent (8.6.9) Wish.app (i get black windows also).
Build the up-to-date "core-8-6-branch" (that is NOT the 8.6 released) to get the fix.

Anyway since Pd-0.50 is shipped with its own Wish embedded it should not be related to that.

In case:

• Have you tried to delete the preferences?
• Have you any external installed that could mess the GUI?

EDIT: Pd-0.50 works "out of the box" on my machine (10.14.6) with/without dark mode.

Thanks much for the suggestions guys, I think I'm just going to give up on this but appreciate the support. I was considering trying to get this going in order to pick up an organelle and play around but I think these kinds of problems are what drove me to euro/analog based instruments to begin with, the frustration is too much

Was a good exercise in learning what I will and will not do to make music.

Cheers