[PD] Re: [PD-dev] Draft Templates for PD reference Files

B. Bogart ben at ekran.org
Tue May 24 19:47:39 CEST 2005


Hey,

I like the idea of the pd.tk sourceing from a directory for tcl/tk code.
Great idea HC. I've not taken a good look at pd.tk in some time, but I
can't recall it being easy to go through. Any counter arguments to doing
this?

pd.tk also sounds like it would need to be done eventually. Is anyone
working on this? Design ideas?

As for the toolkit thing I'm curious how other toolkits relate in terms
of widget types and so on. I know tk can be used by other languages, but
can tcl bind with other toolkits?

I'm imagining that tk specific calls could be wrapped by PD functions.
If we change the toolkit then one would only need to change the
implimentation in these functions but the higher-level stuff would be
left intact. That is IF there is enough similarity between toolkits.

Based on IX's posts it seems to me that tk is finally starting to move
in the right direction... (the GL acceleration is particularly interesting)

B.

Krzysztof Czaja wrote:

> yes, it would make customizing of pd-gui much easier, and it could
> somewhat improve robustness of gui externals.  If the purpose of
> such a directory is customizing and extending locally (per user
> or per site), it will never be overwritten with new Pd installs.
>
> Another thing is splitting pd.tk, which is already too big, and it
> might not survive adding more features by random patching.  This
> is a typical case of a permanently makeshift code...  perhaps,
> time to decide one way or the other about Tk, after all these
> years?

> Krzysztof
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