[PD] Re: Gaining access to /usr/local/lib/pd/extra in the Finder?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Thursday, Apr 8, 2004, at 05:26 America/New_York, Thomas Grill 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.
>
> Hi Guenter,
> there's already the uPDated package which conforms to the OSX way of  
> things.

The uPDated package does have a double-clickable .app package, but I  
would not say that it conforms to the MacOS X way.  First off, when it  
launches, there are two icons, one for the Platypus system that it uses  
with a Pd icon, and one for the Wish Shell with the standard Wish Shell  
icon.  This is actually more confusing than just having the Wish Shell  
icon running because clicking on the Pd icon doesn't take you to Pd,  
but just the launcher, which seems to do nothing once Wish Shell is  
running.  Plus, Pd is still labeled "Wish" once its running.    It also  
suffers from MacOS X not wanting to show the /doc/ directory.

The AppMain.tcl script is the way things need to be done in order to  
have Pd behave like a MacOS X application.  Check out this nice, free  
sound editor to see an good example of AppMain.tcl in action:   
http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/    Actually, it is probably a good  
place to look to see how a number of GUI things should be done with  
Tcl, things like key bindings, etc.

.hc

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