[PD-dev] tcl registry pd-0.43

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

While avoiding bloat is a worthy goal, it seems to me that a good  
place to draw that line is at the standard Tcl/Tk.  I don't think  
adding those libs will add a lot, but it does mean that people can  
rely on the standard Tcl/Tk docs to know what they can do with Tcl/Tk  
in Pd.

.hc

On Apr 10, 2011, at 3:58 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:

> Hmmm.  yep, maybe the right policy would be simply to throw all of  
> tk/tcl
> in Pd... I've been trying to avoid bloat but there's a real  
> potential for
> lots of features breaking on Pcs if I try to hold to the policy of  
> "only
> include what is being used".
>
> I have to crank up my PC anyway to see about a bug report (asio4all  
> seems
> not to work with 0.43) but probably won't be able to get to it this  
> weekend -
> I have lots of bureaucrap awaiting me...
>
> cheers
> Miller
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:31:30PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 7, 2011, at 3:13 AM, yvan volochine wrote:
>>
>>> On 04/06/2011 08:04 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>>
>>>> According to the Tcl/Tk 8.4 docs, it should be included. What if  
>>>> you
>>>> just try to use 'registry' without the 'package require registry'?
>>>>
>>>> http://tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/registry.htm
>>>
>>> it should but it's not.
>>> running tclsh84.exe shipped with pd-0.43 win binary:
>>>
>>> package require registry
>>>>> "Unknown command registry"
>>
>>
>> Miller, do you think you could add the libs that come with Tcl/Tk to
>> your included  version?  There are two folders called 'reg1.2' and
>> 'dde1.3' that should go into pd/lib directly, they come with Tcl/Tk
>> in tcl/library/.  These will also be needed to support making a
>> double-clicked file open in the currently running instance of Pd.
>> Really everything in tcl/library/ should be included so we have a
>> full Tcl/Tk install.
>>
>> Yvan, it should also be possible to include the 'reg1.2' folder in
>> your plugin folder for making a plugin that people can use now.  I
>> think its just a matter of adding the local folder to the auto_path,
>> so adding something like this to the plugin:
>>
>> set auto_path [linsert $auto_path 0 \
>> 	[file join $::current_plugin_loadpath "openrecent-plugin"]
>>
>> .hc
>>
>>
>>
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