Re: [PD] Pd-l2ork GUI port Alpha 0

-- Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A. Associate Professor Computer Music ICAT Senior Fellow Director -- DISIS, L2Ork Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts – 0141 Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540) 231-6139 ico@vt.edu www.performingarts.vt.edu disis.icat.vt.edu l2ork.icat.vt.edu ico.bukvic.net On Apr 12, 2016 12:00, "Roman Haefeli" reduzent@gmail.com wrote: > On Fri, 2016-04-08 at 14:38 +0000, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote: > > Hi list, > > Here are some binaries to test out the alpha 0 release for the GUI > > port of Pd-l2ork. > > Wow.. impressive work you've done and I think I'm not even remotely able > to grasp what it meant to achieve this. I very much like its native look > (I checked on Ubuntu 14.04). Also the GUI tab in the preferences dialog, > very neat. And the canvas zoom is probably going to be _the_ killer > feature with all the hi-res displays coming up. > > Some observations (from Ubuntu 14.04 i386): > > * For a true vanilla experience, it'd be nice if the GUI preset > 'vanilla' would use bold fonts. > > * I sometimes have to click on Menus twice for the selected item to show > up. I couldn't figure out a reliable pattern. Affected entries: > 'Media->Test Audio and Midi' or 'Edit -> Preferences' > > * I can't load many of my patches in this nw-version of Pd-l2ork. When I > do so, the patch canvas never appears and I get repeating messages > 'watchdog: signaling pd..' on stderr. The process 'nw' uses 100% of a > core and I have to kill pd-l2ork. Some simple patches work fine and I > haven't figured out a pattern of what kind of patches are affected > which are not. However, the behaviour of a certain patch is consistent > (either it loads always ok or it never does so). > UPDATE: Not true. It just takes that much time to load the patch. The > one I just loaded took more than 2 minutes to load. > > What version of Pd-vanilla is this based on? Or is not related to > vanilla anymore? I stopped caring about Pd-l2ork when I figured it > contains some fixes that shifts position of iemguis around. This > renders a lot of my patches unusable because they are not displayed in > the GOP area anymore. I'd love if patches would work in both flavors, > but right now it seems as a patch author you need to decide one. > > Is it correct that externals for Pd-l2ork are binary-incompatible with > externals built for Pd-vanilla? I'm just interested to know, maybe this > isn't such a huge issue, since Pd-l2ork has so many externals > pre-compiled. > > Roman > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > >