Wow, strange. Perhaps it thinks the menu item is disabled? Seems
like something to report on tcl-mac.

.hc

On Jan 9, 2010, at 5:38 PM, Rich E wrote:

pic of audio dialog on svn compile of pd-gui-rewrite, showing the
gray text

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Rich E reakinator@gmail.com wrote:

Still in OS X 10.6. I don't have one of these problems with Pd- devel-0.43 (dec 15) nightly build, so it must all be because of the
tk/cocoa version that you mention. I'm not sure how to report it a
tcl mailing list, as I don't know where the code is that implements
these things.

Does it make sense that the arrow keys are detected differently in
Tk/Cocoa, so they are just sent to pd's gui C code as spaces?

As for the text color issue in the audio settings, you'll have to
point me towards what is controlling that. I'll send you a
screenshot after this email.

Do you know how I can force configure to use Tcl/Tk 8.5.7/Carbon?

I'll use the nightly build in the meantime and let you know what
comes up.

-rich

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 4:40 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans@at.or.at wrote:

First off, which platform? Is this still Mac OS X 10.6? If so,
10.6 has a built-in custom version of Tcl/Tk 8.5.7 that uses Cocoa
for the back end rather than Carbon. Tcl/Tk 8.6 will only use this
Cocoa backend, but will work on Mac OS X 10.5. It would be good to
flush out these bugs and report them to the tcl-mac list so that
they can get fixed.

One thing to try is using one of the nightly builds, which include
Tcl/Tk 8.5.7/Carbon. I think they should work on 10.6: http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/latest/

On Nov 16, 2009, at 1:55 PM, Rich E wrote:

Hi List, Hans,

I've been using the pd-gui-rewrite-0.43 svn for a couple days now
and here are some notes I've taken when finding various bugs (is the
better sent to the pd-dev list?):

• In Audio Settings, the text in the drop down menus is hardly
visible because it is very light grey

Never seen that, screenshot?

• there is a new menu item called 'apple' with "about pd" and
preferences"

Known issue with the Tk/Cocoa, haven't found a workaround yet.

• editing an object name: ‣ moving with arrows adds a space to the end, but does not move
within the object name

Hmm, can't reproduce, Tk/Cocoa issue?

• opening "about pd" gives an error: ‣ Error: can't read "pd_myversion": no such variable" ‣ an't read "pd_myversion": no such variable can't read "pd_myversion": no such variable while executing "regsub -all PD_VERSION $bigstring2 $pd_myversion bigstring3" (procedure "::pd_menucommands::menu_opentext" line 15) invoked from within "::pd_menucommands::menu_opentext "$dirname/$basename"" (".txt" arm line 1) invoked from within "switch -- [string tolower [file extension $basename]] { ".txt" {::pd_menucommands::menu_opentext "$dirname/ $basename" } ".c" {::..." (procedure "menu_doc_open" line 4) invoked from within "menu_doc_open doc/1.manual 1.introduction.txt" (menu invoke)

Its not implemented yet... I was hoping to make "About Pd" a pd
patch.

I have some time on my hands now that I finished my Master's, and
frankly I think the pd-vanilla GUI is unpleasant, so I could learn
tcl/tk and help out, if needed.

That would be great! Your reports have already been helpful. I'm
going to be in pretty deep this month till its finished and merged
into Miller's 0.43 version. He's been relatively scarse on the
lists, but we've been working thru this stuff off-list.

.hc

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