[PD] Pd 0.37.4 app test release for MacOS X

[0001]

Hi Stefan. I think your message was intended for the list, so I cc them 
my response.

first of all keep in mind that those are test releases, and in my case 
quite experimental.

> I don't know if the console problem is solved already, but as the last 
> modification has no console, I can't report any error messages.

with the latest version you can use the system console 
(/Applications/Console.app). If you miss the [print] messages then 
download it again, thie first one I uploaded had a problem with this

> I was running Gerards version of 0.37.4 which tells me that Tcl & Tk 
> 8.4.7 are running. As I remember, Hans-Christophs version, which I 
> tried before, showed me 8.4.6. Does this mean the distribution is 
> loading its own Tcl & Tk version and the version 5 I downloaded before 
> is obsolete?

yes, with this version you don't need to worry about tcl / tk or the 
wish shell anymore (well hopefully), everything goes bundled


...
gerard


El 26/08/2004, a las 10:22, Stefan Tiedje escribió:

> Hi Gerard and Hans-Christoph,
>
> Thank you so much for creating these distributions. It is the first 
> time I could easily get PD running on my Powerbook. As I do use Max 
> for years, I was not too much motivated before, to get it running, it 
> probably would have been possible earlier as well ;-)
>
> The first glance is impressive! I am sure I'll encourage a lot of my 
> students to go for PD, though Max is much more easy to deal with, but 
> especially student are short of money.
>
> But of course, I ran into some problems.
> I don't know if the console problem is solved already, but as the last 
> modification has no console, I can't report any error messages.
>
> I tried to load from Frank Barknechts poolexample the 'tester.pd': 
> nothing happened... after that, even loading my working test patches 
> did not load. This behaviour remained, even after restarting PD. I had 
> to restart OS X (10.3.5) to get it loading patches again. A new 
> attempt to start that tester.pd killed PD (no crashlog, PD just 
> disapeared), a restart of PD was fine this time.
>
> I was running Gerards version of 0.37.4 which tells me that Tcl & Tk 
> 8.4.7 are running. As I remember, Hans-Christophs version, which I 
> tried before, showed me 8.4.6. Does this mean the distribution is 
> loading its own Tcl & Tk version and the version 5 I downloaded before 
> is obsolete?
> I don't get yet how these four programs (PD, Tcl/Tk, Wish, Terminal) 
> are dependent and how they communicate and call each other.
> Especially I'd like to know how I can find out from an OS X point of 
> view if and where things are installed (this is also a problem for me 
> with MySQL I'd like to get hands on for quite a while without 
> success). If everything needed is PD centric in its bundle, this is 
> fine for me, then I don't have to deal with it at all. But I just 
> don't know if this is the case.
>
> Again thanks a lot for getting me going. I'll pull out some PD-Max 
> compatibility abhaXions as my contribution for the community as soon I 
> find some time for it.
>
> Stefan
>
> 0001 wrote:
>
>> hi, I've put a modified version of the test MacOSX application 
>> package here:
>>
>> http://pure-data.info/Members/gerard/pd-0.37.4.dmg
>>
>> changes:
>> * moved to the WishKit app package (distributed with tcl / tk BI)
>> * added -nowish flag to pd
>> * modified AppMain.tcl and pd.tk to launch pd -nowish and load pdtcl 
>> in the new structure, also completed drag+drop support ;)
>> * recompiled pdtcl to link with embeded frameworks. For some reason 
>> @executable_path/../Frameworks seems to resolve to inside the 
>> Resuorces folder of the package, so I've copied the Frameworks folder 
>> there as well as a hackaround.
>> * added some experimental documentation menu  patches.
>
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