New subject: object to get pdversion/tclversion/basedir

13 Sep 2010


      --- On Thu, 9/9/10, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at wrote:
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From: Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at
Subject: Re: [PD] object to get pdversion/tclversion/basedir
To: "Jonathan Wilkes" jancsika@yahoo.com
Cc: pd-list@iem.at
Date: Thursday, September 9, 2010, 6:59 PM
On Sep 9, 2010, at 3:49 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
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--- On Thu, 9/9/10, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at
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From: Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at
Subject: Re: [PD] object to get
pdversion/tclversion/basedir
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To: "Jonathan Wilkes" jancsika@yahoo.com
Cc: pd-list@iem.at
Date: Thursday, September 9, 2010, 4:12 AM
On Sep 8, 2010, at 9:26 PM, Jonathan Wilkes
wrote:
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--- On Thu, 9/2/10, Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans@at.or.at
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From: Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at
Subject: Re: [PD] object to get
pdversion/tclversion/basedir
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To: "Jonathan Wilkes" jancsika@yahoo.com
Cc: pd-list@iem.at
Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010, 11:57
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Digging thru my backlog... in Pd-extended
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hcs/version
tcl/tcl_version
ggee/getdir
I agree, it would be nice to have the
About Pd
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page be a Pd
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patch.  If you make one, I'll include
it in
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Pd-extended
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0.43.
Ok, here's a 1st attempt.  It would look
a lot
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better if I used
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[entry] to display the Pd version (and
possibly tcl
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version) but
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that object is too buggy to use.
The links work assuming about.pd lives in
doc/5.reference.
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Btw-
/usr/lib/pd-extended/LICENSE.txt, referred to
in the
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current "about pd" textfile, doesn't exist on
my
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machine.
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-Jonathan
I like the sparks and credits animation!
Where is
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this file designed
to go in the file system? I think probably the
best place
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would be in
lib/pd/doc/about.pd
I made the pddplinks relative to
doc/5.reference
Here's a revision with the Pd logo.
Ok, I'm adding it to Pd-extended right now :)  The
only change I made  
was to make the Tcl version use only "." to separate the
numbers, not  
"-"
And here's another revision to add little dropping bng circles 
from the Pd logo, as well as a button inside the pd logo 
to make it easy to clear all the ds instances before saving 
changes.
-Jonathan
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On Jul 31, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Jonathan
Wilkes
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Is there an object to get the
pdversion? If so
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it
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would be nice to
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replace the "Help->About Pd"
textfile with
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a pd
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patch so the links could
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be clickable. (Also, it would then be
possible
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to do
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some rolling credits,
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as often happens in an "About this
Software"
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window.)
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-Jonathan

Programs should be written for people to read, and only
incidentally  
for machines to execute.
  - from Structure and Interpretation of Computer
Programs