[PD-dev] Tcl loader and API

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Oct 23, 2007, at 10:43 PM, Patrice Colet wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
>> Now that I am wrestling with wrestling with the GUI API, I am   
>> thinking that it probably makes more sense to write a Tcl/Tk API  
>> and  loader to allow you to write GUI objects completely in Tcl/Tk.
>> I think this is the idea that Krzysztof had in mind when he wrote   
>> widget.  That was before Thomas' loaders and the CLR API.  Now I   
>> think it shouldn't be too hard to turn [widget] into a loader and  
>> API.
>> Any thoughts, ideas, etc. on this?  I am not the Tcl or loader   
>> expert, so I'd like to hear from people how feasible and useful  
>> they  think this will be.
>> .hc
>
>  I'm not an expert at all, but I've got an idea (that originaly  
> come from matju), what about an external that simply do something  
> like this?
>
> sys_vgui("package require %guiobject\n", guiobject)

Matju just pointed out that I missed Federico's post that he has  
created just this:

http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-dev/2007-09/009471.html

.hc


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