Hi Guys, I am new to puredata so forgive me for this stupid question.

I am currently reading the book "Multimedia Programming with Pure Data".
In this book it is said, that right click on an objects opens up a menus, with properties, help and other stuff.
This seems not to be the case for my pureData version.

I know that the book author using pd-extended but this version of pd is not supported anymore, that is why I am
using pd vanilla.

So my questions are:

• Is is possible to do a right click on an object and get the properties and help menus in pd vanilla?
• If yes, how?
• If no, is there an add on which provides this feature for pd vanilla?

@blnpd Yes, it should work in Vanilla too....... even in edit mode.
Are you only having this problem with certain objects?.... or all of them including basic ones like [spigot] for example.
Does a right-click open a box?
Are the contents "properties" "open" and "help" all greyed out (if the box does open)?
And what is your OS.
Google might find others having the same problem...... and hopefully a solution.
David.

@whale-av
My OS is MacOs V12.5 (Monterey).
When I am doing a right click on an object, the box with 'properties', 'open', 'help' does not even appear.

I managed to open the properties menu of certain objects, such as HSlider, Bang, Toggle, HRadio, by holding the control key+double click or do a double right click on the object. Then a window pops up where some values and colors can be setted.

But I could not figure out how to open the menu with the contents "properties" "open" and "help" yet.

I found the issue. It is causes by the external monitor. When pd is used in the laptop monitor a right click on an object displays the menu. When I do a right click and randomly click near the object sometimes the properties or help menu pops up on the external monitor. What I thinnk is that the menu is not displayed correctly on the external monitor.

@blnpd it's a known issue https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/1303