[PD-dev] seeking advice on Pd gui overhaul

[Ivica Ico Bukvic]

you mean in opengl?

Ico

João Pais <jmmmpais at googlemail.com> wrote:

>I'm not a coder, but I could also give a sugestion, which I haven't tried  
>myself for lack of time: how about circumventing tcl/tk, by writing your  
>gui in gem? There was once a report that it's much faster - I can only say  
>it does if you're using data structures inside a gop.
>
>>> The problem is that Tcl/Tk is not the bottleneck when it comes to array
>>> redrawing.  Its how pd sends draw commands.  Redrawing a big array
>>> once
>>> could result in literally 500KB of Tcl code generated by Pd and sent to
>>> the GUI.
>>>
>>> So whether you use Tcl/Tk, Qt, JUCE, or whatever, you'll have to address
>>> that issue to get any real gain. I'd say the best place to start is try
>>> updating the array drawing code so that it just sends a simple command
>>> to Tcl and let's Tcl do the drawing work.  You could easily make that an
>>> external and use it with any version of Pd.
>>>
>>> .hc
>>
>> Interesting. Still, this does not resolve the issue of a large number  
>> box on the screen being updated rapidly taking up a lot of CPU (it  
>> scales exponentially with growing font size and in this case I suspect  
>> Pd's output is minimal, amounting to change in the displayed set of  
>> characters).
>>
>> Ico
>>
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