[PD] PD 0.38 test 4 released: Tcl 8.4.7

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Sep 4, 2004, at 2:21 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:

> Hi Hans Chrostof & James.
>
> I can't seem to get Pd running with the newest tcl/tk yet.  There's
> something mysterious happening.  But after I downgraded from 8.4.7 to
> 8.4.4, then I discovered that actually there's a particular copy of
> pd/Contents/MacOS/Wish Shell, which is different from the one compiled
> in "TclTkAquaStandalone", which is the only one that works.  The others
> all fail and write something mysterious to standard error at the
> first call to "Tcl_Eval" in t_tkcmd.c.  If you want to see it  
> yourselves,
> I think you can just enable DEBUGCONNECT in t_Tkcmd.c and try plugging
> the files from 8.4.7 standalone into the Pd  "app"...
>
> I _think_ the magic copy of "Wish Shell" came from one of the old  
> "package"
> distributions of Tcl/Tk....

Gerard Roma's version of Pd.app is built upon the TclTk 8.4.7  
Standalone Wish Shell.app.  I think he's on vacation, but maybe he can  
shed some light on this topic.  I know that its based on the devel_0_37  
version of Pd and the files to build it are in CVS in  
packages/darwin_app.

http://puredata.org/Members/gerard/pd-0.37.4.dmg

> The idea of implementing a whole new file browser as a hierarchical  
> menu
> is interesting, but there's nothing specific to Pd in the idea... it
> migth be a better plan to have the thing figure itself on-the-fly and  
> propose
> it as a generally useful way to browse within a specific directory  
> tree.

I took a first stab at it.  It figures the menu entries out when Pd  
starts.

http://puredata.org/Members/hans/downloads/installers/Pd-0.38 
-0test4HCS1.dmg

The diff is included.  A procedure called doc_submenu does the  
cascading Help menu.  It should be recursive, but its not yet.

.hc

>
> Miller
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:02:42AM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> Works on my machine, nice.  A couple comments:
>>
>> - Why Tcl/Tk 8.4.4?  Tcl/Tk 8.4.7 seems to have a lot of worthwhile
>> improvements.
>>
>> - The Alt key doesn't work for me.  Tcl/Tk 8.4.7 might help?
>>
>> - The Pure Documentation menu item needs to be fixed.  I think a good
>> way to solve this would be to make the Help menu a set of nested menus
>> like this:
>>
>> Help-|
>>      |-1.manual
>>      |-2.control.examples-|
>>      |                    |-00.INTRO.txt
>>      |                    |-01.PART1.hello.pd
>>      |                    |-...
>>      |
>>      |-3.audio.examples-|
>>      |                  |-A00.intro.pd
>>      |                  |-...
>>      |
>>      |-4.fft.examples-|
>>      |                |-00.INTRO.txt
>>      |                |-...
>>      |
>>      |-...
>>
>> Each individual file would then be opened with menu_doc_open.  This
>> could be auto-generated from the Makefile or within Tcl with a loop.
>> It would be the same on all platforms.  Opening the manual's index.htm
>> would be easy on MacOS X, you can just {exec open index.htm} and it
>> will open the web page in the default browser.  I will do this unless
>> someone else really wants to.
>>
>> .hc
>>
>>
>> On Sep 2, 2004, at 9:52 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Pd 0.38 test 4 is available on the usual,
>>>
>>> http://www-crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/software.html
>>>
>>> The Maintosh version is now a true "application" (no console needed
>>> anymore, yay!).  Thanks to all of you who helped figure out how to  
>>> get
>>> Mac integration going.
>>>
>>> Cutting text now works correctly.
>>>
>>> New filters are included, which I'm using for chapter 8 of the
>>> long-stalled book...
>>>
>>> cheers
>>> Miller
>>>
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