Still in OS X 10.6. I don't have one of these problems with Pd-devel-0.43 (dec 15) nightly build, so it must all be because of the tk/cocoa version that you mention. I'm not sure how to report it a tcl mailing list, as I don't know where the code is that implements these things.
Does it make sense that the arrow keys are detected differently in Tk/Cocoa, so they are just sent to pd's gui C code as spaces?
As for the text color issue in the audio settings, you'll have to point me towards what is controlling that. I'll send you a screenshot after this email.
Do you know how I can force configure to use Tcl/Tk 8.5.7/Carbon?
I'll use the nightly build in the meantime and let you know what comes up.
-rich
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 4:40 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.atwrote:
First off, which platform? Is this still Mac OS X 10.6? If so, 10.6 has a built-in custom version of Tcl/Tk 8.5.7 that uses Cocoa for the back end rather than Carbon. Tcl/Tk 8.6 will only use this Cocoa backend, but will work on Mac OS X 10.5. It would be good to flush out these bugs and report them to the tcl-mac list so that they can get fixed.
One thing to try is using one of the nightly builds, which include Tcl/Tk 8.5.7/Carbon. I think they should work on 10.6: http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/latest/
On Nov 16, 2009, at 1:55 PM, Rich E wrote:
Hi List, Hans,
I've been using the pd-gui-rewrite-0.43 svn for a couple days now and here are some notes I've taken when finding various bugs (is the better sent to the pd-dev list?):
• In Audio Settings, the text in the drop down menus is hardly visible because it is very light grey
Never seen that, screenshot?
• there is a new menu item called 'apple' with "about pd" and preferences"
Known issue with the Tk/Cocoa, haven't found a workaround yet.
• editing an object name:
‣ moving with arrows adds a space to the end, but does not move within the object name
Hmm, can't reproduce, Tk/Cocoa issue?
• opening "about pd" gives an error:
‣ Error: can't read "pd_myversion": no such variable" ‣ an't read "pd_myversion": no such variable can't read "pd_myversion": no such variable while executing "regsub -all PD_VERSION $bigstring2 $pd_myversion bigstring3" (procedure "::pd_menucommands::menu_opentext" line 15) invoked from within "::pd_menucommands::menu_opentext "$dirname/$basename"" (".txt" arm line 1) invoked from within "switch -- [string tolower [file extension $basename]] { ".txt" {::pd_menucommands::menu_opentext "$dirname/$basename" } ".c" {::..." (procedure "menu_doc_open" line 4) invoked from within "menu_doc_open doc/1.manual 1.introduction.txt" (menu invoke)
Its not implemented yet... I was hoping to make "About Pd" a pd patch.
I have some time on my hands now that I finished my Master's, and frankly
I think the pd-vanilla GUI is unpleasant, so I could learn tcl/tk and help out, if needed.
That would be great! Your reports have already been helpful. I'm going to be in pretty deep this month till its finished and merged into Miller's 0.43 version. He's been relatively scarse on the lists, but we've been working thru this stuff off-list.
.hc
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