Hi Hans Chrostof & James.
I can't seem to get Pd running with the newest tcl/tk yet. There's something mysterious happening. But after I downgraded from 8.4.7 to 8.4.4, then I discovered that actually there's a particular copy of pd/Contents/MacOS/Wish Shell, which is different from the one compiled in "TclTkAquaStandalone", which is the only one that works. The others all fail and write something mysterious to standard error at the first call to "Tcl_Eval" in t_tkcmd.c. If you want to see it yourselves, I think you can just enable DEBUGCONNECT in t_Tkcmd.c and try plugging the files from 8.4.7 standalone into the Pd "app"...
I _think_ the magic copy of "Wish Shell" came from one of the old "package" distributions of Tcl/Tk....
The idea of implementing a whole new file browser as a hierarchical menu is interesting, but there's nothing specific to Pd in the idea... it migth be a better plan to have the thing figure itself on-the-fly and propose it as a generally useful way to browse within a specific directory tree.
Miller
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:02:42AM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Works on my machine, nice. A couple comments:
- Why Tcl/Tk 8.4.4? Tcl/Tk 8.4.7 seems to have a lot of worthwhile
improvements.
The Alt key doesn't work for me. Tcl/Tk 8.4.7 might help?
The Pure Documentation menu item needs to be fixed. I think a good
way to solve this would be to make the Help menu a set of nested menus
like this:Help-| |-1.manual |-2.control.examples-| | |-00.INTRO.txt | |-01.PART1.hello.pd | |-... | |-3.audio.examples-| | |-A00.intro.pd | |-... | |-4.fft.examples-| | |-00.INTRO.txt | |-... | |-...
Each individual file would then be opened with menu_doc_open. This
could be auto-generated from the Makefile or within Tcl with a loop.
It would be the same on all platforms. Opening the manual's index.htm
would be easy on MacOS X, you can just {exec open index.htm} and it
will open the web page in the default browser. I will do this unless
someone else really wants to..hc
On Sep 2, 2004, at 9:52 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
Hi all,
Pd 0.38 test 4 is available on the usual,
http://www-crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/software.html
The Maintosh version is now a true "application" (no console needed anymore, yay!). Thanks to all of you who helped figure out how to get Mac integration going.
Cutting text now works correctly.
New filters are included, which I'm using for chapter 8 of the long-stalled book...
cheers Miller
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