[PD-dev] How to send data from pd-gui to pd??

[B. Bogart]

Hi Krzysztof,

At this point I have been able to get closer to what I need with an 
external in two days than I have been able to in weeks of toxy 
tinkering. This is a short term solution at this point, as a deadline is 
drawing near.

I will continue working with Toxy though, and I reallt think it has 
great potencial. I do find it a little chalanging to work with toxy, 
especially lower-level things like the width of the popup widget, the 
size and shape of the bounding box etc..  Are you working on a language 
reference for toxy? I found the biggest stumbling having to be always 
asking you personally what things mean and how to deal with them.

If you end up making a text widget example, that returns a list of text 
items in the examples I'll be very likely to use that in my project, but 
I may just be able to make an external with the same functionality in 
less time.

I really do appreciate your efforts in the development of toxy, and 
taking the time to answer my questions. Your work is highly appreciated.

Thanks
Ben


Krzysztof Czaja wrote:

> hi Ben (and Guenter?),
>
> in a short-term project you will probably find yourself on a safer
> side, since toxy is still very immature.
>
> Taking a longer-term view, however, I do not understand, why
> should anybody prefer writing and maintaining (esp. through Pd api
> changes) a few-hundred-or-more-line external, to a few lines of
> a simple Tcl code, which has to be embedded in that external,
> anyway.
>
> At least, there are no fundamental stability, nor performance gains
> I can think of...
>
> Krzysztof
>
> B. Bogart wrote:
> ...
>
>> I'm almost finished [popup], with a couple bugs and the biggest issue 
>> being that I can't figure out how to pass data from the tk widget 
>> back to pd.. (telling it what menu item was selected!) in GGEE 
>> button.c seems to do the magic here, could someone explain whats 
>> really going on?
>>
>>    sprintf(buf,"button%p",x);
>>    x->x_sym = gensym(buf);
>>    pd_bind(&x->x_obj.ob_pd, x->x_sym);
>>
>>    sys_vgui("proc button_cb%x {} {\n pd [concat button%p b \\;]\n 
>> }\n",x,x);
>
>
> defines a procedure to be configured into a button's -command.
> The proc, when invoked, sends a 'b' message to the object.
>
>