Hi All,

I'm ready to really get cooking wirh PD but need the zexy and osc libraries to get moving but can't for the life of me find mac binaries or make the CVS files work. Zexy has a makefile and OSC had just files in a directory. Arrr... Any suggestions?

Thanks so much,

B

Hi List,

I'm new to PD, GEM and computer video but am familiar with midi in max. I have a few questions. PD and gem seem like truly wonderfull and amazing tools but I need to get my bearings.

Is there any way to start up PD so it knows my audio and midi prefs - so I dont have to reset this if it crashes (I'm using the wish&tc&tk shell installation)? Maybe something in the terminal when I run it? Is there some preference file for the mac components I can tweak?

So what's the best strategy for dealing with presets in patches as there is no preset object? I noticed that there is no preset module like in MAX. I read the "differeces from max/msp" section but am still unclear. Do I need to make lots of message boxes and click all of them?

Is there any Show/hide for cables?

Is this the best place on the web to hang out and ask questions to learn about PD and GEM?

Also is there any place I can see where inlets and outlets go to or what signal they want?

Thanks a lot in advance.
-b

Hi,

I'm new to gem and PD but have experience with max. I'm running PD on OS X and am wodering how can I save the output to a file that I could use in video projects (imovie->idvd->watch on tv).

Thanks,

-b

CM thank you very much for your help in this and the other topic. The tool tips thing is great unfortunately it doesn't work on my install (OS X .038 test) no biggie I'll just write the comments in the in/outlets and hope it does in the future. The canvas tip is very cool but I feel very frustrated with the way canvases translate (get drawn) onto the parent patch. Especially with radio box descriprions. It's too much trouble for me now to make things pretty and I'm actually kind of liking the rough look.

BTW In case anyone was wondering. My solution for saving parameters in my patches is using the number2 and slider objects with properties set to remember the init value. Also, file paths can be set $1 after the [openpanel] in message boxes and [loadbang]ed back into patches. The modifed patch can be saved under a new name. Unfortunately the patch's modified flag doesn't get triggered unless you go into edit mode so you won't get prompted by your system to save anything if you close the window and forget to save.

later -b

Hi 10,000 and all,

Thanks, Maybe I'm missing sometthing stupid. How do I make the makefile make into someting? Also I'm trying to download the osc library I'm not sure what to download and how to make it work and even how to dowload it peoperly as it doesn't work like an FTP directory. Do I just keep clicking and clicking on each until i get to the dowload link and then "save target". Is there an easier way?

Ltr-b

Hi,
Hardoff- thanks about liking my site also I told her about you and she really likes your nickname and wants to meet you.

Just kidding.

Anyway I got snaps pro working great with GEM. Yay. The trick was setting the gem window and snapz capture at 640X480. Something was weird in the translation when I was capturing a fullscreen.
-b

I just went through this. Check:

http://puredata.org/docs/faq/index_html#WhatArePdsCommandLineOptions

Thanks,

I tried snapz at the highest settings and the caputers are fuzzy with pixelated edges even at the best settings - 30 fps (fullscreen). This sucks because I'm having so much fun with this and getting really amazing wonderful results that look great on my monitor. I wish there was some way to have a firewre device function as a second (or third) desktop. I have a pc with s-svideo out so I'll try running some of the same patches on that machine into my DV cam and see if that looks any better.

-b

Thank you so much. I'm going to try and figure some of this out
-b