Message: 7 Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:42:47 +0100 (BST) From: Ed Kelly morph_2016@yahoo.co.uk Subject: [PD] OSX Gui problems To: PD List pd-list@iem.at Message-ID: 20060919134247.95465.qmail@web26310.mail.ukl.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hi all,
I've been making a patch which is gui-heavy, that runs quite well on Linux. The problem is it has been made for somebody who wants it to work on a 1.5GHz Mac Powerbook with OSX.3. Now, the GUI is slow and unresponsive at the moment, and renice-ing the GUI has little effect. The GUI elements are unresponsive regardless of whether the dsp is on or off. It has over 240 GUI objects.
Having checked out the list I see that Tk/Aqua has a reputation for sluggish GUI performance. Is there a version of Tcl/Tk I can use that is better on OSX? And if so, how do I create the Pd-0.39-2.app folder that Miller distributes? I need to be making the whole thing (Pd, the patch and the externals used) as one file, so the people I work for can download it, unzip it and run it.
Best, Ed
Hi Ed , I'm working on a version of Pd that uses Tcl/Tk 8.5 alpha, that should solve many of those problems. Until now I'm working trying to recompile Pd with this version of Tcl/tk. If you want to join the effort, you are welcome! You can find a version of Tcl/tk already compiled for mac at: http://homepage.mac.com/tigital
If you check the archives, you'll find that Tigital did already some work in this direction. For example, check: http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2003-11/015649.html
I think you have to recompile, putting all the externals that you need, provide a preference file in order to be sure that the libraries are loaded (as in the pd-extended version for mac by Hans-Cristoph Steiner), and put all together on a .dmg disk image that you can also compress. (See on the mac /Application/Utilities/Disk Utility, if I remember correctly!)
Libero