[PD-dev] Re: pure devil (fwd)

[B. Bogart]

Hey Mathieu +

How would a graphical external be written in such a system with multiple
interchangable patchers/guis? Would there be any effort to abstract the
gui code to allow for one graphical external to be realized in all the
possible GUIs? I think we would loose a lot if graphic external "A" only
works on PD gui 2.3 and not on any others...

For me a nice API would include a nice way to build gui externals. Ever
nicer would be a cross-toolkit method of doing so. A heftly task I imagine.

Also I'm about to start on that help-patch searching system in tcl. (for
a start anyhow)


B.



Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Tim Blechmann wrote:
>
>>Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>>
>>>Therefore we do not need libpd for that purpose... but it would still
>>>be  cool to have a libpd one day, as an option for those who want it.
>>>(Someone  came in _today_ on the channel asking whether there was a
>>>libpd)
>>
>>well, no idea, that his purpose would be, but it's possible to compile a
>>libpd ... no nice api, though ...
>
>
> Ok, what do you want in the nice API ?
>
> I mean what would be in the libpd API that isn't already in m_pd.h ?
>
> And then there might be nice stuff required for a better API that isn't
> specific to libpd, ... such as publishing stuff from g_canvas.h... (but
> incidentally g_canvas.h corresponds to the part of Pd i am currently
> nuking)
>
>
>>>For disabling the old Pd GUI, I see these options:
>>>  (A) disabling the code using #ifdef
>>>  (B) disabling the code by not calling the startup code
>>>  (C) disabling the code by ignoring what we can and else calling more
>>>      startup code that overwrites the objectmaker entries that we
>>>      don't  want
>>>(C) is the least "destructive", but sometimes destruction is better...
>>>I  don't know which I'd pick, but I'm confident that I/we will figure
>>>it out  at the right time.
>>
>>B ... makes it possible to stay compatible with miller as long as
>>possible ...
>
>
> Ok, you're right.
>
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