[PD-dev] glist woes under linux? (and Where to put my externals?)

[B. Bogart]

Hello all,

Thanks to everyone who has helped me out over this learning experience, 
especially Krzysztof who has spent a lot of time on my questions.

Ok I have two questions today. After getting my text widget to talk to 
PD I have a functional (so I thought) external, only in need of some 
cleaning up. To my great dismay I copied the source over to my linux 
machine and "text" seems to think its a standard non-gui object!!!
All the methods are there and accessible, the only errors I get are that 
it can't find the widget path. Interestingly the widget path always 
starts with .x0. where "0" should be printf("%x", x->x_glist) As far as 
I can tell the glist stuct member is containing something completely 
different on OSX than in linux (but popup works on linux, and I changed 
nothing in the glist stuff, copied directly over).

I debugging I put posts in functions: create_widget, text_drawme (in 
if(firsttime) and else(firsttime), text_displace and text_vis. None of 
these posts end up on the console.

Now that I have this terrible bug, I would like anyone who has the 
experience and time to take a look.

So where should I put "text" in CVS? along side chaos, popup, and pso in 
the root? Or make a "bbogart" directory to contain these? or leave pso 
and chaos and put popup and text in a "gui-externs" directory? The code 
is almost identical to popup, all I changed was the tcl stuff and 
changed the object methods, which all just do sys_vgui things.

Any help would be appreciated. I was hoping to keep on with the posts, 
but since none of these methods seems to even get called, its a issue 
that far exceeds the depth of my pd knowledge. :( I don't even 
understand what a glist is. *sigh*

Thanks everyone,
I hope at least some of you also have applications these things would be 
useful for.

Oh I have one more question, the text widget likes to hold onto keyboard 
focus once it has been focused (with mouse) so one can't use the 
keyboard in the patcher without unfocusing the text widget (Ctrl-tab). I 
fixed this by binding the <Leave> event on the text widget with a focus 
command on the widget's parent (focus [winfo parent]) I'm not sure if 
this is safe to do in all circumstances. But it does seem to work well.

Thanks! (with great enthusiasm)
Ben

PS: I'm teaching another lot of University students pd/Gem next week.