On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Miller Puckette wrote:
- pd now writes "printout" to standard error; this would have to be
sent to the TK layer and displayed there.
This feature is part of IMPD 0.37.A, which is rather bug-free -- it's the version i "released" (tagged) just before beginning to go berserk.
I don't know how to do this in the most efficient possible way; maybe it's OK just to display a "text" widget and keep stuffing text into it.
IMPD 0.37.A requires the console to be enabled using the -console option, to which a scrollback length (number of lines) must be given. That value can be changed at runtime by setting the $cmdline(console) global variable from the Tcl eval-box.
- Sometimes one will still want to run it from Pd; for instance, if
no GUI is desired at all; 3. Someday there should be a way to open a Pd patch from a web browser. This shouldn't start up a whole new pd process but connect with an existing one, if one exists. I'm not sure how this should play out: whether the TK layer should handle this or the pd layer.
I agree with this; I think having eitherone start the other, or the two started separately, should be three options available to the user; they all are useful, in different circumstances.
BTW, do you think PD's GUI architecture is appropriate as it is now for using over a wide-are network? I don't have the impression, but I didn't have the occasion to try Pd remotely, say, from some computer in Japan... or even in Ontario...
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