[PD] TkWidget library

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Oct 31, 2007, at 3:12 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> First off, Tcl/Tk 8.5 looks to have a lot of performance  
>> improvements, especially on Mac OS X, as it shifts from Carbon/ 
>> QuickDraw to Cocoa/CoreGraphics.
>
> I said that before. I'm claiming that Tcl/Tk 8.5 is too slow. Tcl/ 
> Tk 8.4 is even slower, mostly for OSX, but also, I suspect that the  
> use of TrueType fonts takes more juice in general, but I haven't  
> measured yet.
>
>> Since we are talking about Tk now, I was wondering whether it  
>> would be possible to use Tcl/Tk's C interface in some objects in  
>> order to make things happen more efficiently.
>
> This is not where the bottleneck is.

I thought the network socket was the bottleneck.  The example I am  
thinking of is getting the mouse pointer coords from Tk.  That  
generates a lot of network traffic, it would be nice this happened in  
the pd process instead.  Obviously, using the C interface to draw to  
the screen wouldn't be useful.

.hc

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