[PD] Re: [PD-dev] launching tcl/tk scripts from pd

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 5, 2006, at 6:58 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Federico wrote:
>> Mathieu Bouchard ha scritto:
>
>> i discovered delays of toxy when dealing with messages that needs  
>> to be timing-accurate
>>> Do you want to give me a hand making/designing this?
>> yes! (as I said you on IRC)
>> let me know some newz ;)
>
> Ok, if I'm not staying too long in Toronto, we're having a  
> developers meeting tomorrow at Ottawa university (matju + _heri +  
> alx1) and we're going to talk about GridFlow II. Then I'd like to  
> make a prototype of that external as soon as possible, possibly  
> using SWIG; _heri has gained quite a bit of experience with SWIG.  
> Once we have something that works I'll make you try.
>
> However, there's a slight chance that we back off from that project  
> (of making an external for server-side tcl), so I don't really want  
> to promise anything tonight.

If you are going to add Tcl support, I highly recommend that you  
check out the loader functionality that Thomas wrote.  Its in both  
devel and MAIN, and there is a working CLR version working.  I am  
thinking you could implement a Tcl loader and Pd API layer, then  
you'll be able to write regular Pd objects directly in Tcl.

.hc


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