Hi,

new here, so there is a chance I am posting in the wrong place - please let me know.

I've been meaning to start working with puredata for a while and finally got around to it.

Below are a couple of issues I have run into so far (I am sure there will be more). Please, let me know, if I am doing something wrong, or if there is a bug.

1. Went here: https://puredata.info/docs/StartHere, downloaded and installed 0.42.5 using the provided link. Ran the application.
   It says on that page: "open the Pd Help Browser and navigate to the first item in the list, Examples". There is not such a thing there. For me the first item is Manuals/, underneath is Pure Data/ and so on.

2. Anyway, I went into "Manuals/0. Intro/+pager.pd and started going through those pds. I then got to 03.GettinHelp.pd. It says at the bottom. "You can right-click on the canvas to get a list of the core Pd objects.". Again, right-clicking only gives me a 3 item context menu: Properties, Open, Help (Open is grayed out).

3. I don't seem to be able to select the text in the help's .pd windows with the mouse and copy and paste it.

Thanks,
a1

System: WinXP 32 bit

I moved your post. As a general rule, if you have a Pd question and don't know where to post it, post in Technical Issues.

That page probably hasn't been updated in a while. The Help Browser has been revamped since then. Two good places for beginners to start with are the FLOSS manuals and the online Loadbang book:

http://flossmanuals.net/puredata/
http://www.pd-tutorial.com/

To get the list of core (vanilla) objects, right click an empty background and click Help in the popup menu.

To select the comments, click and drag to draw a selection box around them. The text should turn blue, but not highlighted by a light blue box. Then you can copy and paste it. If it's highlighted, then you can only edit it.

Thanks, Maelstorm.

I'll check out the links. In the mean time, I am just going to continue plowing through the Intro. (My goal is to figure out how to receive process and send midi data).

Incidentally, would it make sense for me to edit that "Start Here" page, since it no longer reflects the reality, or is there a "talk page" process somewhere that needs to happen first?

So, with selecting the comments I MUST change to Edit mode to copy text?

In any case, the only way I can do it is the following:

-Change to Edit mode.
-Drag the rectangle - watch character changer color to blue. (At this point Ctrl-c/Ctrl-v doesn't work)
-Click once on the "highlighted" text, it becomes selected (the dark blue color typical of selection color. Now, be careful, as pressing any character other than ctrl-c will wipe out the text.