[PD-dev] pd and tcl/tk 8.4 and some more ....

[Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999]

Isn't 8.4 still in beta?

I'd be very interested in hearing about your vdsp development in PD 
(since I stopped using jmax when you were just starting up a couple years 
ago) Hope it all goes well.

Ben


On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Christian Klippel wrote:

> hi all,
> 
> i just try to get pd installed, but configure looks for tcl/tk 8.0/8.2/8.3
> on my system i have tcl/tk 8.4 installed, so the compilation fails.
> im using pd-0.35-0.linux.tar.gz from miller's page.
> 
> what can i do to get it compiled, without installing the old tcl/tk version ?
> 
> and then the next thing :
> 
> i want to start porting the vdsp (pixonix) stuff i made for jmax to pd.
> there are two ways i could do that, one is to take the current source
> and really port it to pd, or just to rebuild it from scratch.
> the first one would mean that a lot of fts code gets into pd, and im not sure 
> if that could be done anyway. for the second way i need some helping hand 
> with the interna of pd.
> 
> maybe a quick introduction of how i made vdsp will help here :
> 
> i simply took the dsp stuff (chain creation/handling/etc), duplicated it and 
> modified it to handle pixels instead of audio data. basically its all the 
> same as the audio part is, just the type of data passed has changed (int 
> instead of float) and all the functions related to dsp_ got vdsp_.
> next was to modify the "automatic signal addition" (when you connect more than 
> one signal to one inlet they get mixed) to add pixels.
> 
> so, if im going to reimplement it, i need to know exactly which parts of the 
> pd source do the complete chain building/handling/etc. as im new to pd it 
> would be great if someone can help me there. i guess it is a not-so-good idea 
> to take the existing vdsp source, since this would mean a implementation of 
> fts into pd. better use whats there ;-)
> 
> thanks for your help,
> 
> chris
> 
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