[PD-dev] mclocale

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Tue Feb 3 19:39:11 CET 2009


Hey,

I cc'ed pd-devel to keep people posted and get people involved, I hope  
that's ok.

I've been thinking that there could be a 5th preference pane for  
preferences just relating to the Wish/Tcl side of things.   The 4 now  
are all related to pd (paths, startup, audio, midi). Global settings  
like font, bg/fg color, etc. and also GUI behaviors could be managed  
in this 5th preferences pane.  Perhaps there could be a manual  
override for the locale in that 5th prefpane.

Is that along the lines of what you were thinking?

Also, I think might have broken starting from Wish first, this is what  
I use mostly for testing:

rm -f ../bin/pd.tk ; make bin && ../bin/pd

(The makefile doesn't handle tracking the Tcl files well, so  
deleting ../bin/pd.tk forces all Tcl files to be copied again)

.hc

On Feb 3, 2009, at 1:38 AM, Chun Lee wrote:

> Hi there:
>
> i was going to try out exporting LANG on this laptop i am using atm,  
> but pd-devel don't seem to run, though it compiled fine.... when i  
> do ./pd.tk, it got stuck at "setting font to: Courier normal", then  
> nothing. will try it again later on my main laptop when i am home  
> next. just looked at the TODO list and will think of something to  
> work on. have you thought about ways to customise the appearance of  
> the patch? ie bg/fg colour, font, object colour..etc? maybe i can  
> look into that?
>
> cheers
>
> chun
>
> Hans-Christoph Steiner said :
>>
>> I think the msgcat is pretty much sorted out, except for details.   
>> For
>> me, I have just been setting "export LANG=zh" on the command line,  
>> then
>> running it.  I think we should add code to make sure that it first  
>> tries
>> to get the locale from the system, then otherwise, it can be manually
>> set.
>>
>> As for what you want to work on, I've been maintaining the  
>> devel_docs/
>> TODO pretty well.  Really, its up to you what you want to work on.  I
>> just started redoing all the panels.  Check out the Find panel, I  
>> think
>> we can do a lot of good stuff there.
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On Feb 2, 2009, at 10:58 AM, Chun Lee wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi there:
>>>
>>> just had a quick dig around with updated pd-devel. wow, seems that  
>>> you
>>> have made quite some progress:) i saw the msgcat stuff that you have
>>> done so far too, seems quite straight forward. quick question, i  
>>> don't
>>> see mclocale being set anywhere, is it so at your local copy too? i
>>> just tried setting it quickly, but didn't quite work as i hoped,  
>>> but i
>>> am being very hasty here...
>>>
>>> anyways, just wanted to see what's your progress with msgcat stuff  
>>> and
>>> where i can get start with.
>>>
>>> cheers
>>>
>>> chun
>>
>>
>>
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