On Thursday, Apr 8, 2004, at 05:26 America/New_York, Thomas Grill wrote:
A Mac user suggested that it would be more "mac like" to put the whole Pd distribution into one single Application directory instead of using the unix file system standard.
Hi Guenter, there's already the uPDated package which conforms to the OSX way of
things.
The uPDated package does have a double-clickable .app package, but I
would not say that it conforms to the MacOS X way. First off, when it
launches, there are two icons, one for the Platypus system that it uses
with a Pd icon, and one for the Wish Shell with the standard Wish Shell
icon. This is actually more confusing than just having the Wish Shell
icon running because clicking on the Pd icon doesn't take you to Pd,
but just the launcher, which seems to do nothing once Wish Shell is
running. Plus, Pd is still labeled "Wish" once its running. It also
suffers from MacOS X not wanting to show the /doc/ directory.
The AppMain.tcl script is the way things need to be done in order to
have Pd behave like a MacOS X application. Check out this nice, free
sound editor to see an good example of AppMain.tcl in action:
http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/ Actually, it is probably a good
place to look to see how a number of GUI things should be done with
Tcl, things like key bindings, etc.
.hc
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