[PD-dev] mclocale

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 4, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Chun Lee wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner said :
>>
>> I played around some more and I can't reproduce your starting  
>> problem.  I
>> was able to start the current code on Ubuntu like this:
>>
>> wish8.5 ../bin/pd.tk
>> wish ../bin/pd.tk
>> ../bin/pd
>>
>> And on Mac OS X like this:
>>
>> wish ../bin/pd
>> ../bin/pd
>> the Pd-devel.app that I have.
>>
>
> yeah, this is how i start it too. i tried it on my main laptop and  
> it doesn't have the startup problem i mentioned before. so there  
> must be something different on the other box i first tried it on.  
> export LANG also works fine here.
>
>
>> I did fix the font panel, it launches now.  Maybe Tcl is having some
>> issue with your font setup?
>>
>
> could be, but on the second look, it seems that the problem comes  
> from the pd server, as it didn't get started and printed out all the  
> options as if i have given it the wrong command option. any idea?  
> again, i can't repeoduce this on my main laptop.

Hmm, maybe something in your .pdrc or .pdsettings?  Could you post a   
dump of the output?

.hc

>
>
> cheers
>
> chun
>
>> .hc
>>
>> On Feb 3, 2009, at 1:39 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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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