On Apr 8, 2004, at 4:39 AM, guenter geiger 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.
I think technically it is feasable, what do you think about producing the Mac packages that way ?
hey guenter,
...yeh, not only desirably and technically feasable, but already done several times over ;-) I came up with "pd++.app" ( http://homepage.mac.com/tigital ) because pd needed to be correctly registered with the window manager in order to get window events working when using Gem (think dragging the gemwin around, grabbing the mouse/keyboard)...it also has a popup text entry to allow entry of flags at startup (but this seems to bork the .pdrc functionality)...anyway, it was just a sketch to get the gem stuff correct...
...more promising is stuff like uPDated, which is a wrapped up version of impd ( http://pure-data.iem.at/Members/gerard/uPDated ) using a script building application called Platypus...this is really the way to go, I think, because it now allows tcl/tk/wish shell to be bundle inside also, so you really have a "place anywhere" double clickable application...well, ya still need to have the documentation/example patches somewhere...
...I plan on making a standalone app the "platypus" way, kinda like a "tigital distro", with gem and stuff I use...
l8r, jamie