Windows/Mac compatibility

Reply to Windows/Mac compatibility on Mon, 20 Feb 2017 18:48:34 GMT

potikinawah — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 18:48:34 GMT

Hi there,

I've been patching this pretty simple metronome which has a few tempo preselection.
It's actually for a juggler I met, he had a very complicated setup to do something pretty simple during his show so I offered to take a few minutes patching this for him and send him.
My issue is that this works perfectly on windows (I only have windows and linux OS) yet his personal computer is a macbook and apparently it doesn't work there. I'll try as soon as I can get a hand on a macbook yet maybe some of yours might already have an idea about what's wrong ?

thanks guys

TheWhistle_GUI.pd

Reply to Windows/Mac compatibility on Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:46:48 GMT

dxk — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:46:48 GMT

You probably have to be a bit more specific on what exactly is going wrong. If it's trouble starting Pd, at least the last time I was on a Mac (long ago) you had to install XQuartz. There's a new node-webkit/HTML5 distribution of Pd called Purr Data (or Pd-l2ork 2.0) that's been posted about on this forum that probably doesn't have that requirement. Otherwise if it's with the patch itself, based on a cursory glance it looks relatively straightforward, everything's in Vanilla. The only errors I'm getting are that I don't have the sound files (which obv I don't so that's to be expected). Otherwise, maybe their sound isn't configured properly? I forget exactly what options you have in Mac since I've been on Linux and run everything through JACK....

Reply to Windows/Mac compatibility on Tue, 21 Feb 2017 23:53:50 GMT

potikinawah — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 23:53:50 GMT

Thanks for the reply

My juggler just told me he didn't have no sound using the patch on Mac without no more info (I'll ask more because obviously it can be the dps which doesn't turn on or maybe just the soundfile location that doesn't have the same path on Mac, I can remember issues like this about path-shaping differing from Windows to Mac)

I'll give him some suggestions and shall be back with more info if I still can't find no solution

Thanks again

Reply to Windows/Mac compatibility on Sat, 25 Feb 2017 20:24:22 GMT

Monetus — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 20:24:22 GMT

I never had to install anything on mac to get vanilla to work. I may have installed xquartz when I installed mac's devtools, but I'm pretty sure I already had pd downloaded at that point. The only thing about mac that sucks is that tcl/tk (the stuff used to make pd's interface) is usually version 8.4.

That should make zero difference to the sound though.

[loadbang ] -- [; pd dsp 1 (

^ If you want to make it a no brainer for him.

edit: since I mentioned tk, might as well point out that you can download a version of pd with tk 8.6 built into it. Having trouble finding the link atm, but its on the forum here somewhere. Danomatika's distributing it.