Hey all,

when i install GEM, it seems to work (be bussy anyway- it extracts a bunch of files and, after i edit the installer to have the right path to find PD, appears to be doing things there (patching it?)) but- after the install its... not installed? objects from GEM are not recognized (if i create them, they have dotted outlines just like if you create a gyberish object, instead of ports)- also, if i run examples that come with GEM they don't work- i get errors like this:
"gemhead
... couldn't create
sphere
... couldn't create
gemhead
... couldn't create
light
... couldn't create"
So- i know this is a really beginner issue, but whats going on? is there a tutorial or better instructions somewhere on how to iunstall GEM and get started? thanks everyone!

Bryan

Hi skrako,

startup your PD, go to Preferences > Startup
enter "gem" (without the little lines) into one of the fields, save and restart your PD.

Next time it loads the gem stuff.
try it

I'm trying to use GEM on Windows XP and I'm having trouble specifying the pathway for startup

I have the following

\Program Files\pd\bin\pd -lib /Program Files/pd/gem/gem-0.90.1

I get the following response:

consistency check failed: sys_decodedialog: \{+Program+_Filespdbinpd+_-lib+_/Program+_Files/pd/gem/gem-0.90.1\}

My guess is I have some serious syntax errors. Any help?

Bonjour

Does some know how to make use pictures for instance a fish, a person or a bicycle or what so ever without the frame or the whole paper sheet

my aim is to render them as particles running over the GEMWIN just as a fish a person and not as a sphere or a cube etc

merci

Gottfried

what u need to do is make a rectanglular picture, so put a fish on a black background.

then use [alpha] to make the black part transparent.

btw... for unrelated posts, probably best to make a new thread. merci

matthew w, i think your problem relates to the difference between backslashes and forward slashes in the path

hello hardoff
many thanks
it works
the first tries are encouraging

gottfried

ok I've switched by slashed and I now I'm getting this

/Program Files/pd/bin/pd -lib /Program Files/pd/gem/gem-0.90.1/: can't load library

what exactly am I trying to point to? the .dll file or something else?

it seems that the problem is not "cant load Gem Library ", but "cant load Gem Help files" here ...

Gem object works well but if you right click on any gem object and choose "help", the console will show me "couldnt find pix_texture help ... " like that.

I also got this problem on my xp pc laptop ,
and I'll try on my ubuntu ...

Hi,

I am on Ubuntu and when I launch Pd I get this :

../lib/pd/extra/Gem.pd_linux: ../lib/pd/extra/Gem.pd_linux: undefined symbol: _ZN6FTFont4BBoxEPKwRfS2_S2_S2_S2_S2_
Gem: can't load library

Is there somebody who knows what is wrong?
Thanks

HI,
I got the same problem as pnoe. I'm trying to run PD in openSuse 11.1 and after one week of work I'm not able to make GEM run.

.../ Gem.pd_linux: undefined symbol: _ZN6FTFont4BBoxEPKwRfS2_S2_S2_S2_S2_
Gem: can't load library

somebody knows what's happening?

Many thanks.

same problem

Pd-extended includes GEM, as well as a number of other useful libraries. Unless you have a specific reason not to use Pd-extended, I would give it a shot.

http://puredata.info/downloads

I tried PD-extended and the problem persist.

/ Gem.pd_linux: undefined symbol: _ZN6FTFont4BBoxEPKwRfS2_S2_S2_S2_S2_
Gem: can't load library

OpenSuse 11.1

I'd try the list, maybe someone can help you there.
http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Hi, thought I'd post here even thought the thread is old before starting a new topic because my problem is exactly that as described here, though none of the suggestions have help and no one seems to have my exact error console output, which is as follows:

WARNING: Font family 'Courier' not found, using default (DejaVu Sans Mono)
tried ./gem.l_i386 and failed
tried /usr/lib/pd/extra/Gem/gem.l_i386 and failed
tried /usr/lib/puredata/extra/gem.l_i386 and failed
tried /home/digithree/pd-externals/gem.l_i386 and failed
tried /usr/local/lib/pd-externals/gem.l_i386 and failed
tried /usr/lib/puredata/extra/gem.l_i386 and failed
tried /usr/lib/pd/extra/gem.l_i386 and failed
tried ./gem.pd_linux and failed
tried /usr/lib/pd/extra/Gem/gem.pd_linux and failed
tried /usr/lib/puredata/extra/gem.pd_linux and failed
tried /home/digithree/pd-externals/gem.pd_linux and failed
tried /usr/local/lib/pd-externals/gem.pd_linux and failed
tried /usr/lib/puredata/extra/gem.pd_linux and failed
tried /usr/lib/pd/extra/gem.pd_linux and failed
tried ./gem/gem.l_i386 and failed
tried /usr/lib/pd/extra/Gem/gem/gem.l_i386 and failed
tried /usr/lib/puredata/extra/gem/gem.l_i386 and failed
tried /home/digithree/pd-externals/gem/gem.l_i386 and failed
tried /usr/local/lib/pd-externals/gem/gem.l_i386 and failed
tried /usr/lib/puredata/extra/gem/gem.l_i386 and failed
tried /usr/lib/pd/extra/gem/gem.l_i386 and failed
tried ./gem/gem.pd_linux and failed
tried /usr/lib/pd/extra/Gem/gem/gem.pd_linux and failed
tried /usr/lib/puredata/extra/gem/gem.pd_linux and failed
tried /home/digithree/pd-externals/gem/gem.pd_linux and failed
tried /usr/local/lib/pd-externals/gem/gem.pd_linux and failed
tried /usr/lib/puredata/extra/gem/gem.pd_linux and failed
tried /usr/lib/pd/extra/gem/gem.pd_linux and failed
gem: can't load library
input channels = 2, output channels = 2
audio buffer set to 25
opened input device name hw:0
configuring sound input...
Sample width set to 2 bytes
configuring sound output...
Sample width set to 2 bytes
tried but couldn't sync A/D/A

So I've added the word "gem" (with no quotes) to the Startup list, and the external library locations (whose paths can be seen in the above output) yet it doesn't work.

Any ideas? I've verified that both pd and gem are installed and at the lastest version. I'm using Ubuntu 11.10

Thanks