[PD-dev] How to use sys_startgui()?

[Miller Puckette]

odd.. I don't see the commits on the github site's list of commits, but
"git pull" to a cloned repo gets them fine.  Latest is:

commit 816bef86d6fe9af558fe57f0ea32090d373d7e51
Author: Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu>
Date:   Sun Jul 16 08:30:40 2017 -0700

    Revert "makefile.gnu to build ../obj and ../bin dirs"
    
    This reverts commit be1a47750a05243345fc1f46060a501258e9d0b4.

commit be1a47750a05243345fc1f46060a501258e9d0b4
Author: Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu>
Date:   Sun Jul 16 08:28:51 2017 -0700

    makefile.gnu to build ../obj and ../bin dirs

commit 214377333afb55705b2e41e608e039effe0c1383
Author: Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu>
Date:   Sat Jul 15 18:29:48 2017 -0700

    fix font size functions in s_main.c never to report zero size


(The third one back is the one you want :)

M

On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 05:30:24PM +0200, Pierre Guillot wrote:
> Thanks! I'll have a look when the modifications will be on the GitHub
> repository.
> 
> 2017-07-16 3:32 GMT+02:00 Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu>:
> 
> > Anyhow I just pushed a fix so that functions like sys_fontwidth() never
> > report less than one pixel - this should get rid of divides by zero
> > without having to call sys_fakefromgui().
> >
> > cheers
> > M
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 10:56:09PM +0200, Pierre Guillot wrote:
> > > Yes, I think that's the first case but I surely need to better understand
> > > this part of the code. In fact, I have no idea what is considered as part
> > > of the GUI or not... I mean, in my case, I don't really have a graphical
> > > interface but I would like to get the informations of the objects that
> > > depends on the font sizes. If I don't call sys_fakefromgui(), I get a
> > > division by zero somewhere because the font sizes are not initialized
> > (and
> > > perhaps there are other errors but I don't reach these parts of the
> > code).
> > > Anyway with the previous version of Pd I didn't have to call this
> > function
> > > so didn't really look at that but now I would like to know what it really
> > > does and if there is a proper way to initialize this part of Pd.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Pierre
> > >
> > >
> > > 2017-07-15 19:36 GMT+02:00 Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu>:
> > >
> > > > Do I understand correctly that you're trying to run libpd _without_ the
> > > > GUI and discovering that you have to copy code from sys_fakefromgui()
> > to
> > > > get it to work?
> > > >
> > > > Or, rather, are you actually trying to start the GUI up and need to
> > know
> > > > the path to the GUI files?
> > > >
> > > > In the latter case, I was tacitly assuming that people distributing
> > libpd
> > > > apps that wanted to be able to use Pd's GUI would bundle the entire Pd
> > > > GUI package (Wish, pd/tcl, pd/po, probably more) with their
> > installation,
> > > > as different libpd apps might require different versions.
> > > >
> > > > cheers
> > > > Miller
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 04:30:16PM +0200, Pierre Guillot wrote:
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > I started to update my project zpd [1] with the last version of Pd
> > > > (before
> > > > > testing the new features in libpd) but I don't really understand how
> > the
> > > > > function sys_startgui() should be used and what it does [2] . In the
> > > > > Miller's branch of libpd, the example [3] use a relative path but I
> > don't
> > > > > know what is the path to my application and what should be the
> > target of
> > > > > the path. I asked on GitHub and Dan explained me that I should give
> > the
> > > > > path to the tcl scripts to start the Pd GUI but what if I don't have
> > Pd
> > > > > installed? The solution I found for the moment is to copy the static
> > > > > function sys_fakefromgui() [4] but it's dirty and not very
> > sustainable.
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyone has a solution?
> > > > > Best,
> > > > >
> > > > > Pierre
> > > > >
> > > > > [1] https://github.com/pierreguillot/zpd
> > > > > [2] https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/blob/master/src/s_
> > > > inter.c#L1377
> > > > > [3]
> > > > > https://github.com/libpd/libpd/pull/171/files/
> > > > ddd6ef004c00ca41f1834fcb5bf5f72f972bc20d..
> > 35e4272a2c3ba610836fa4cdff3bea
> > > > 99dac815fb#diff-44ec7e62314f045847d1166bd74411b5R77
> > > > > [4]
> > > > > https://github.com/libpd/libpd/pull/171/files/
> > > > ddd6ef004c00ca41f1834fcb5bf5f72f972bc20d..
> > 35e4272a2c3ba610836fa4cdff3bea
> > > > 99dac815fb#diff-44ec7e62314f045847d1166bd74411b5R77
> > > >
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