Israelbenz@aol.com writes:
After I finish some projects I'm working on know, I'd like to begin working on a slightly friendlier/sexier UI for pd, if only for my own intellectual stimulation and self satisfaction. I've come to this point because a Max/MSP porrt for Windows is a ways off at best. The only problem is I don't really know anything about Tcl/Tk. I'm moderately capable in generic C++ and VC (i.e., MFC). Does anyone have any suggestions about online tutorials (i.e., free) about how to write Tcl/Tk code. If not, how about any particularly good books.
If you want to write some objects with user inteface, take a look at the ggext package. But beware, you can´t use tcl/tk knobs and whistles, and you have to paint everything yourself into the canvas object. The canvas object is known not being the fastest, so the easiest way to rewrite pd´s GUI is to write a replacement for the TCL/TK canvas object. You don´t need to implement every command, and you may add some GUI widgets in your new "enhanced" canvas, which then could be used directly from within pd. So what it comes down is a kind of interpreter, which reads the commands pd sends, and send mouse movement andother events back to pd.
Guenter