[PD] Re: Mac OS X installer with library documentation

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

It would be great if we could all join forces on the MacOS X Pd.apps.   
There would be much less duplicated effort then, and a much better and  
more up-to-date Pd.app available.

The code is all there, its poorly documented I will admit, but I will  
definitely answer any questions about it.  And, of course, we encourage  
anyone who has something to contribute to become a developer in the  
SourceForge project.

As for the Help submenus, it was an incomplete effort, it definitely  
needs work.

.hc

On Mar 24, 2005, at 7:31 PM, Paris Treantafeles wrote:

> thanks - i'm trying it out .
>
> -p
>
> On Thursday, March 24, 2005, at 07:07  PM, Thomas Ouellet Fredericks  
> wrote:
>
>> I also have a packaged os x pd at :  
>> http://data-art.uqam.ca/telechargement.php
>> I also tried Burt's but it did not work.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:34:23 -0500, Paris Treantafeles
>> <paris at parisgraphics.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just got around to installing this and was wondering if it only  
>>> runs
>>> on 10.3?
>>> I am using OS X v 10.2.8 and can run previous pd mac version  
>>> pd-0.38-2
>>> but when i try to run this one nothing happens at all.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> paris
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, March 16, 2005, at 01:39  PM, Burt wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Greetings again,
>>>>
>>>> I have posted a new version of an installer for OS X.
>>>>
>>>> http://pcm.peabody.jhu.edu/~sburt/pd/installing_pd_os_x.html
>>>>
>>>> Rob Lycett requested that I add the comport library and its
>>>> documentation, so I did.  I was also frustrated by tcl/tk handling  
>>>> of
>>>> submenus within submenus.  If anyone knows how to do this, please  
>>>> let
>>>> me know.  So, I placed the 7.stuff subdirectories directly into the
>>>> Help menu which is not elegant and only temporary.  I also added a
>>>> zexy submenu to Help (which I had previously forgotten).  So, now
>>>> there should be easy to find documentation on basic PD objects, the
>>>> libraries Gem, vasp, pmpd, Han's hid, and Zexy, plus everything  
>>>> inside
>>>> the stuff folder including (now) comport.
>>>>
>>>> I feel that a better way to organize the Help menu (with my  
>>>> segregated
>>>> library approach) would be to do it with submenus for PD and major
>>>> libraries and an extra folder for smaller things:
>>>>
>>>> PD Documentation/
>>>>     HTML manual/
>>>>     control examples/
>>>>     audio examples/
>>>>     fft examples/
>>>> Gem/
>>>> pmpd/
>>>> vasp/
>>>> zexy/
>>>> extras/
>>>>     hid/
>>>>     comport/
>>>>     stuff/
>>>>        audio playpen/
>>>>        data-structures/
>>>>        soundfile-tools/
>>>>        synth/
>>>>        tools/
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, this would require a restructuring of PD  
>>>> documentation
>>>> as it is now, and I would have to understand how to create submenus  
>>>> in
>>>> submenus in tcl/tk.  Can anyone do this?  What would be really cool
>>>> would be to adjust the Pd script so that Help documentation of a
>>>> particular library does not appear until the library is loaded.   
>>>> That
>>>> way, we avoid users opening help patches and getting messages about
>>>> objects not existing (or worse yet, PD crashing).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Samuel Burt
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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