so, i've downloaded and installed pd on my xp pro box, and when i try to run pd.exe, it thinks for a moment, then seems to do nothing. however, pd.exe is actually running in the process manager. curious.

any thoughts? apologies if this is obvious/annoying/oft-discussed (i did look around)...

thanks,

charles

I have the same problems when I install pd 0.39.2 or 0.40.1, but there's no installation problems with pd 0.38.4 extended. When I installed pd, there's always a wish84.exe trying to get through my firewall, is this all right?

Also when I use pd 0.38.4 extended, everytime it shows

"GEM: Graphics Environment for Multimedia
GEM: ver: 0.90
GEM: compiled: Aug 3 2004
GEM: maintained by IOhannes m zmoelnig
GEM: Authors : Mark Danks (original version on irix/windows)
GEM: Chris Clepper (macOS-X)
GEM: Daniel Heckenberg (windows)
GEM: James Tittle (macOS-X)
GEM: IOhannes m zmoelnig (linux/windows)
fftease: can't load library
hid: can't load library
Info: this

has been backported from Pd 0.39.2
pdp: can't load library
pidip: can't load library

pmpd = Physical Modeling for Pure Data
version 0.06
compiled Jan 16 2006
Contact : cyrille.henry@la-kitchen.fr

VASP modular 0.1.3
vector assembling signal processor
(C)2002-2005 Thomas Grill

http://grrrr.org/ext

xsample objects, version 0.3.1

xrecord~, xplay~, xgroove~
(C)2001-2005 Thomas Grill

-: can't load library"
_______________________________________________________________

Can anyone help me with these problems?

Hi Charles,

yes, it's probably your firewall that blocks pd... just give permission to run it
(my firewall on win - zone alarm - just asks me at the first installation, then
you can set a rule to let it run pd.exe always...)

@ yorken:

"GEM: Graphics Environment for Multimedia
GEM: ver: 0.90
GEM: compiled: Aug 3 2004
GEM: maintained by IOhannes m zmoelnig
GEM: Authors : Mark Danks (original version on irix/windows)
GEM: Chris Clepper (macOS-X)
GEM: Daniel Heckenberg (windows)
GEM: James Tittle (macOS-X)
GEM: IOhannes m zmoelnig (linux/windows)

that's ok.. now you have GEM runnning, an astonishing 3D open-GL
environment at your commands

fftease: can't load library
hid: can't load library

this is not ok It means that probably you have set those entries
in File->Startup but the libraries (.dll files with the same name) are not
reachable by the program.. Try to find these .dll on your pd folder
(look for fftease.dll) and if you find them just add the path to the
File->Path ...

for pmpd, VASP, xsample etc. it seems ok...
pdp and pidip are graphical extensions to PD
that, if I'm not wrong, work only on Linux (maybe Mac...)
so don't worry about them.

cheers,

Alberto

Hi, AlbertoZ, Thanks so much for your help.

I searched fftease.dll, hid.dll in pd folder, but could not find them. I tried to install again, still the same problem. So where I can download those .dll files ?

Yorken

Hi yorken,

I searched a bit the pd list archives (http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/ : go there, you have
a great search engine that will often help you) and I saw that hid was never ported on windows, while fftease (a collection of spectral processor objects), as far as I can see is only available in source code into the Pure data cvs repository..
So my suggestion is: if you are just start learning PD just forget about them (at the
moment) then, if you are interested to these come back in the future

Probably there is an issue of compatibility between versions of PD extended (Win-Linux-Mac) that
makes an overall structure the same for all the platforms but not all externals work
on all platforms...

Best,

Alberto