Re-learning Pd after a couple of years. Downloaded 0.43.4-extended, installed it in a Windows 8.1 machine. It runs, but apparently some or all of the extended functionality is missing. Objects including atoi, coll, button, and beatpipe (selected at random from the Floss manual list) get a "...couldn't create" message in the Pd window.

Ditto for a bunch of seemingly essential stuff. If I hit "About Pd" in the Help menu, I get "couldn't create" messages for things like bng, expr, del, and lgl, all of which are evidently used in the About pop-up.

Plainly there's something wrong with the install. But what?

Hello,

Two of the objects you mentioned above ([beatpipe] and [lgl]) cannot be created on my Linux install, but you obviously have a problem if you can't create things like [bng], [expr], [del], [coll], etc. Is this a fresh install of Pd? Did you move your Pd folder or any of its folders to a different location? For instance, [coll] is part of the cyclone library and should be located in a subfolder named extra\cyclone. Can you find a file named coll.pd there? If so, try to open another file from the same folder named coll-help.pd - does it manage to create the [coll] object?

Good luck and take care,
Gilberto

Yes, it's a fresh install.

This appears now to be an intermittent problem. Today things are working (such as creating a bang button via Ctrl-1 and typing "bng") that failed to work two days ago. The cyclone folder is in the extra folder, as expected, and coll-help opens and creates a coll object.

I have no guesses as to the reason for the problem disappearing. If it recurs, I'll try to isolate the conditions and report it.

Hi,

If the problem appears again, please let us know here, else things seem to be working fine for you right now.

Take care,
Gilberto