[PD-dev] Compiling pd against Tcl/Tk X11 on Darwin

[Henrik Frisk]

Hello,

It was pretty straight forward to edit the u_main.tk to get it to use my
X11 tcl/tk. But, I can't get it to draw any subwindows. IOW pd launches
as expected, the main window is displayed, but choosing the 'open' or
'new' menu commands doesn't draw a new window. The patch is loaded
though - if I start the DAC the patch produces audio...

Any ideas?

/Henrik

> The C code will probably be easy to get going, but there is going to
> be some added checks on the Tcl/Tk side of things (pd/src/u_main.tk
> aka pd.tk).  Basically, the GUI only checks the OS not the Windowing
> engine.  So you'll have to add checks to pd/src/u_main.tk.  In an
> installed app its known as bin/pd.tk, but its the exact same file.
> 
> 
> This is the command you'll need: tk windowingsystem
> 
> which returns one of
> 
>   aqua
>   win32
>   x11
> 
> tk::mac::useCGDrawing is a Tk/Aqua-only command, so that might be the
> only change needed.
> 
> .hc
> 
> >
> > In the mean time, I'm trying to compile pd for Tcl/Tk for X11, the one
> > installed through Fink. I changed a few lines i s_inter.c so that it
> > finds wish, but it still assumes I have the Aqua version of Tcl/Tk
> > installed and complains about tk::mac::useCGDrawing is missing (run
> > time
> > - compiling works fine). Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > /Henrik Frisk