IOhannes and James. Thanks for the replies.
I found the relevant line in pdtk_canvas.tcl. I know modifying that isn't
permanent, because the next update might break it, but it did let me
replace -background white with -background gray95, which is cool. Now, I'll
just have to figure out if it's possible to reuse this command in a tcl
plugin file.
I downloaded the tcl command plugin through deken, which seems like a great
way to test commands.
Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction. This forum is an
amazing group of people!
Sam
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> Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2022 16:10:20 +0100
> From: IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig(a)iem.at>
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> Subject: Re: [PD] plugin.tcl not changing anything, Linux
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> On 3/3/22 15:59, Samuel Burt wrote:
> > Hi, list.
> >
> > In Pop_OS (Debian derivative), I created a file called
> > *canvasgrey-plugin.tcl* and populated it with:
> >
> > set ::canvas_fill "gray75"
> > set ::text_color "#222"
> >
> > I've openned Pd, created new windows, saved the preferences, but seen no
> > change in the canvas or text color. Any suggestions?
> >
> > This page <http://puredata.info/docs/guiplugins/GuiPluginsAPI> seems
> recent
>
> this page refers to pd-extended (long dead), and doesn't apply to pd
> (vanilla).
>
> theres currently no way to set the colors in Pd, but there's a [196]
> that tries to add this possibility.
>
> gasmr
> IOhannes
>
>
> [196] https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/196
>
Thanks, IOhannes, for the link. It's easy to get lost in old documentation.
Does anyone know if any of the instructions on
http://puredata.info/docs/guiplugins are applicable to Pd 0.5+ anymore or
should we update the page to show which versions of Pd are capable of using
these tcl plugins?
Sam
> On 3/3/22 15:59, Samuel Burt wrote:
> > Hi, list.
> >
> > In Pop_OS (Debian derivative), I created a file called
> > *canvasgrey-plugin.tcl* and populated it with:
> >
> > set ::canvas_fill "gray75"
> > set ::text_color "#222"
> >
> > I've openned Pd, created new windows, saved the preferences, but seen no
> > change in the canvas or text color. Any suggestions?
> >
> > This page <http://puredata.info/docs/guiplugins/GuiPluginsAPI> seems
> recent
this page refers to pd-extended (long dead), and doesn't apply to pd
> (vanilla).
theres currently no way to set the colors in Pd, but there's a [196]
> that tries to add this possibility.
gasmr
> IOhannes
[196] https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/196
Hi, list.
In Pop_OS (Debian derivative), I created a file called
*canvasgrey-plugin.tcl* and populated it with:
set ::canvas_fill "gray75"
set ::text_color "#222"
I've openned Pd, created new windows, saved the preferences, but seen no
change in the canvas or text color. Any suggestions?
This page <http://puredata.info/docs/guiplugins/GuiPluginsAPI> seems recent
enough, but links to pages on sourceforge that I can't find now. Is there
another repository of tcl plugins that I'm just not finding? Would love
some nice simple examples.
Thanks!
Sam
Hi, there's a third value output in the 'cooked' list that the
documentation doesn't explain, but the code refers to as 'temperature'.
Does anybody know what it is? Miller? :)
Opened an issue for it => https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/1578
btw, this is me revising and going over the whole documentation of Pd and
writing quick references. Almost done!
cheers
Hi, I've been working on this for a few months now since the end of
the year. I once dreamed I could pull it off before 0.52...
It offers a minor design revision of the help patch and suboatches with
references for all the objects.
An idea is to provide these references as an html document as well.
I should revise it all once more at least, hopefully a dear soul could help
me with that...
Anyway, check it out and let me know what you think =>
https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/1517
cheers