Hallo!
features that pd neither uses nor needs to use. It would be dead-easy to re-implement the current GUI in C or C++ using a cross-platform low-level graphics library, which would not only give us enormous visualisation capability, but I think is necessary to support any more advanced GUI
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Indeed this is a project I'd like to take on, but I can't penetrate the GUI code, can't figure out where anything hooks in to anything. Anyone care to give me some pointers?
Well, this idea of reimplementing pd's gui came up now quite some times ... and there were already some trials (in qt, karma, desiredata ...).
I think the problem is that one would have to communicate with Miller _before_ starting to do that, if he could think of integrating this into pd ... And I don't think that this is such a small project or would be so easy ... ;)
However, I think that problem is that nobody knows, what Miller wants here. He said at the pd-convention 2004 that tcl/tk was/is only a temporal solution ...
LG Georg