[PD-dev] Reminder Pd-devel IRC meeting Feb 13 (tomorrow)

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Mon Feb 16 05:23:37 CET 2009


Ah, cool, good to know.  That's one of the goals of this Pd-devel  
effort: to support Tcl/Tk 8.5.  Currently, Pd doesn't really work with  
Tcl/Tk 8.5.  On GNU/Linux, the font handling gets messed up, on Mac OS  
X, Pd doesn't even start with 8.5.

.hc

On Feb 15, 2009, at 8:19 AM, PSPunch wrote:

>
> Ooops, I spoke too soon about the fonts...
>
>
> Tcl/Tk supports anti-aliased fonts on X windows with version 8.5 which
> after updating to, Pd started up with menu fonts closer to the  
> system's
> style. (My Ubuntu 8.04 originally had some version in the 8.4 line.)
>
>
> --
> David Shimamoto
>
>
>> Hans,
>>
>>
>> Just an update to the chat on IRC,
>>
>>
>> The message pack in Japanese worked right out of the box.
>>
>> Here's a screen shot.
>> http://pspunch.com/pd/pd-devel_jp.png
>>
>>
>> --
>> OT,
>>
>> Unfortunately there are very few non-proprietary Japanese fonts  
>> that an
>> average user considers reasonably beautiful, which I imagine users of
>> other Asian charsets may relate to. What individuals configure for  
>> their
>> desktop is often where they've settled after a trial and error  
>> figuring
>> what suites them best and would be nice to see them in tk menus as  
>> well.
>>
>>
>> The following quoted from
>> http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TkCmd/font.htm#M41
>>
>> ---- Begin quote ----
>>
>> X Windows
>>     All valid X font names, including those listed by xlsfonts(1),  
>> are
>> available.
>>
>> MS Windows
>>     The following fonts are supported, and are mapped to the user's
>> style defaults.
>>
>>
>> Mac OS X
>>     The following fonts are supported, and are mapped to the user's
>> style defaults.
>>
>>
>> ---- End quote ----
>>
>>
>> I wonder how difficult it is, or what may break if tk uses system
>> default styles for X, or is it a concept unique to Gnome?
>>
>>
>> Just a something I would like to add to the veeeeeery bottom of the  
>> wish
>> list.
>>
>> --
>> David Shimamoto
>>
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