Hello All,

Did a minor performance last weekend, wherein one of the things I tried was to:

a. launch a messy conglomeration of patches
and then,
b. *drop-down the Pd window*, to shift over to Midivid for awhile to play out some images *via projector*

Which is all something I have done before.

This time though, when I brought up the Pd window, everything in my "patch" was sort scrunched up towards the upper left-hand side of the screen,.. and absolutely frozen in regard to being able to bang or tweak anything, even though the whole mess kept on playing just fine.

I'm pretty sure that this had to do with the projector, probably in combination with my dropping-down the Pd window.

But of course, if possible, I'd love to know precisely what the problem might have been.

Any ideas / guidance?

Windows XP + Pd version 0.40.3-extended-20080721

For the record: the rest of the performance went off great, including a wee bit of jiggery-pokery with Marco Donnarumma's lovely C::NTR::L, which worked like a charm.

Keep well all ~ Shankar

get Linux.
Sorry, I'm a prick. Hopefully someone else can actually be helpful.

Shankar, I wanted to ask if you have any videos of the event?

To ask us what caused the problem, of a problem I can't fully understand anyway (having not experienced it) I really don't think you're gonna get an answer sorry man. Although often projectors mess with screen resolution... I guess there was an issue somewhere with regards to the desktop realestate that the computer might have thought it had or didn't have.

And yeah,

Get linux, then tell me why to go linux.

I'll second the resolution problems.

we had similar problems when doing the same kind of stuff.
are you starting up pd before or after connecting the projector? because i always found restarting pd would fix those problems.