[PD-dev] startup order for pd/pd-gui

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I am thinking that it would be possible to make the startup options  
the same on all platforms, so that it would be possible to launch pd- 
gui and it would launch pd and vice-versa on any platform.  That would  
make things more flexible, and make the code more flexible.  Plus it  
would make it easy for people to run Pd with different versions of Tcl/ 
Tk.  I can't think of any downsides...

.hc

On Jan 10, 2009, at 3:15 PM, mescalinum at gmail.com wrote:

> actually pd-gui was not passing the port number to pd.tk
> I didn't spent time figuring out the reason, but I fixed it with  
> commit
> 10501 [1], by calling 'wish pd.tk' instead of 'pd-gui'
> call it a hack, but it worked for me
>
> btw, s_inter.c is very very messy. it's hard to read what it does for
> which platform
> how about a tidy up? perhaps writing a little cross-platform api for
> launching processes (and wish) would allow this...(?)
> (but, is the launch order reversed in OSX? i.e. the gui starts the  
> server?)
>
> 1:
> http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data/branches/pd-devel/0.41.4/src/s_inter.c?r1=10407&r2=10501&pathrev=10501
>
> -- 
> FF
>
> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> I little self-posting is in order!  mescalinum and I have made some
>> progress, so I thought I'd document it here.
>>
>> - on GNU/Linux, pd-gui is a process called pd-gui.  On Windows and  
>> Mac
>> OS X, pd-gui is started using 'wish pd.tk".
>>
>> - 'pd' starts 'pd.tk' in s_inter.c
>>
>> - when pd.tk is started by the Wish.app on Mac OS X, pd.tk then  
>> starts
>> 'pd' using -guiport,
>>
>> - s_inter.c and t_tkcmd.c are scary
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On Jan 10, 2009, at 11:44 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>>
>>> One thing that is twisting my brain into knots is the startup order/
>>> procedure.  It is not very easy to follow and different on each
>>> platform.  This is something I would really like to smooth out.
>>> Right now, I am looking for tips on figuring out everything that is
>>> going on.  I've searched around some, but am not finding any
>>> archived discussions.
>
>
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