[PD-dev] loading an external from gui-plugin (or vice-versa)

[Jonathan Wilkes]

For a1) I've also thought about abusing the invisible template-canvas, for a different purpose.  But that's a 
short term gain for the risk of bigger problems and unnecessary side-effects later.
If you still want to go the route of invisible canvas, there should probably be a simple interface to create and 
manage a new invisible canvas for that purpose.  That way if you need to debug your invisible canvas, you 
don't end up nuking garray's drawing instruction when you accidentally close it (for a simple example).
I know Hans was thinking in that direction for libdir loading.  I'm still not sure if that's a good idea, though.
But backing up a bit...
If you're goal is to get rid of tcl in the C code in an external written for Pd Vanilla, why not use this:
https://github.com/CICM/CicmWrapper


 

    On Thursday, April 21, 2016 10:08 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:
 

 i'm developing a little something that consists of a gui-plugin and some
library running on the pd-core side.

the gui plugin does not make any sense without the library loaded and
vice-versa.

so i'm looking for the best way to
a1) load an external from a gui-plugin
OR
a2) load a gui-plugin from an external
AND/OR
b) check from one side that the other side is initialized properly.

all of the above should not make any assumptions about the OS.
all of the above should work without any nasty trace-back errors.
instead, i would like to do the error-reporting myself (a traceback is
cool for a dev; less so for a user)

ad a1) i was thinking about abusing one of the invisible
template-canvases to instantiate a dummy object that triggers the
library load (e.g. "_float_template"). are there any pitfalls that i
should be aware of?

ad a2) the main reason or writing a GUI-plugin is to get rid of any
tcl/tk hard-coded into the C-plugin. i guess sending a command like
"load_plugin_script mycoolthing" is platform agnostic enough for my
needs. however, it seems that the only way to load a plugin is currently
by specifying the full filename: "load_plugin_script mycoolthing.tcl"; hmpf
it also throws a nasty error if Pd cannot find the GUI-plugin:
> Tcl) UNHANDLED ERROR: couldn't open "mycoolthing.tcl": no such file or
directory

ad b) the basic idea is to have a ping-function on the *other* side,
that replies with a "hi, i'm here" when called.
so far i've found two options:
b1) create a proc in the plugin, and call that directly from the core;
or b2) have the GUI register a plugin-receiver that does the dispatching.
unfortunately both solutions give me a backtrace when the GUI-plugin has
not been instantiated (and the point of the exercise is to avoid a
backtrace)

ideas?

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