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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>The Pd Vanilla 0.46-7 Windows distribution includes tcl/tk 8.5 and a widget demo.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The demo can be opened with the message <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><code><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>exec wish85.exe $::sys_libdir/lib/tk8.5/demos/widget<o:p></o:p></span></code></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>pasted into the “tcl prompt:” + <enter><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Initially I am trying to find a way to send a message directly to that prompt from a patch, in a similar manner to [; pd(<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>That seems to have been expressly omitted from the console build.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There is a widget editor available (vtcl) which makes widget building more accessible for noobs like myself.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> If an object or objects exist, or could be compiled for Pure Data, that could open a widget and receive variables from user interaction with that widget then a patch could call widgets in –nogui mode (or not) and present a simple user interface to a “user” of the patch.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have implemented (badly- but I am learning fast) an additional menu item for the Pd window which can communicate with tcl/tk (working for windows os) <a href="http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/9991/woof-a-new-window-menu-for-vanilla-tcl">http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/9991/woof-a-new-window-menu-for-vanilla-tcl</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please let me know if I am “breaking” the license, and of course I will stop.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But for now I am stuck anyway.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>David.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><hr noshade="noshade" size="1"><a></a><p class=""avgcert"" align="left" color="#000000">No snowden found in this message.<br>
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