[PD-dev] problem loading tcl tk plugin with binary

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

Em seg., 15 de mai. de 2023 às 05:08, IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
escreveu:

> not sure what you mean here, but the nature of race-conditions is that
> they are hard to reproduce (across systems).
> a race condition might happen on one system (reproducibly), and not show
> up on another system at all.
>

yup, on the same computer, it happens on mojave but not on monterey... on
another older computer it loads on mojave.


> what would "not be an issue"?
>

this whole problem of not being able to load this particular plugin with
the newer structure.


> with Pd-0.54 the ".popup" will not be created any more at all, so if
> your code depends on such an item, it will fail.
>

sure, it would need to be adapted, just like the PR to add an object
browser to Vanilla has been adapted. For reference, see
https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/1917


> otoh, Pd-0.54 will replace the ".popup" with a window-specific
> "${win}.popup". this window-specific item will not be created until the
> window is created, so if your code depends on such an item to exist at
> startup time, it is likely to fail as well.
>

The only usage of 'popup' in #1917 is in the bottom with "*trace add
execution ::pdtk_canvas::create_popup leave category_menu::create*"

And I just tested loading this file against the current master. No issue
loading the plugin. So I am suspecting that this new structure and strategy
solves the issue, right? Please confirm.


> > I can wait though, no problem. For now I'll just tell people to add
> else's
> > folder to the search path in preferences-->path and I can name the .tcl
> > file in order to load it as a tcl plugin like others.
> >
>
> ideally https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/1766 would be
> applied, in which case you just have to put an "else-plugin.tcl" into
> your "else" folder and it will be loaded automatically.
>

That will be indeed great, sure, but in the meantime I'll change the way to
load this thing and wait for 0.54-0 to update the library to load this
plugin without any issues and in a more convenient way.

Thanks
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