Sorry for the late response again.
I still have the same problem.
First I killall pd and than run a shell script which starts the patches

like this:

/Applications/Pd-0.47-1-64bit.app/Contents/MacOS/Pd /Users/xxx/Desktop/OSCcontrol.pd
sleep 5
/Applications/Pd-extended.app/Contents/MacOS/Pd-extended /Users/xxx/Desktop/OSCcontrolsend.pd

every time pd starts, each instance opens twice. What is the solution? Why this happens?

Update,

sometimes it makes a readable file with 2,6 megabyte size but than completely goes wrong and the next files are just 1 byte size.

Check out the patch in the attachment, just change the path before bang for snapshot.
autophoto.pd

Hi list,

I want to have a motion detected photo camera which takes picture if someone stands in front of the camera.
Using pix_video feed to pix_write creates a 1 byte tif file.
Do you have any idea why it does not make a usable file?
I am on Mac OS X.10

Thanks in advance:

Popesz

@bassmang5 no never managed to have a proper texture in pd. bad, as it would really improve the effect after all.

Liam,

I does not really understand your point.
Can you show me an example for the abstraction?
Adding to the bang preferences the argument to the receive symbol, it changes the $ to # automatically.

David,

thanks a lot, that's what I exactly needed.
IOU

Popesz

Dear forum,

I try to create an interface with 72 bangs, therefore it would be useful if I can indicate with colours if any of the bangs were at least once used. If I use the method which is in the bang-help file described inside the pd edit subpatch, the message sends it to all of the bangs in the interface. Do you have any idea, how to menage it to have an impact only on the certain bang, and not on all of them?
Originally, each bang should open one image in pix_image, so I made the message be activated after the pix_image loads the image. If loading is cancelled by the user, no message sent to the bang subpath, so there is no change in the color and in the label.
Hope it is clear, what I wanted to describe here

Best:

Popesz

I made a mistake, it meant to be a script but I just run the patch from autorun from the Mac OS system settings.