[Pd] active and tot not right in pd-extended

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Fri Sep 15 06:15:01 CEST 2006


On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, martin.peach at sympatico.ca wrote:

> The available edit windows in tcl/tk are a bit limited. It seems like 
> you can either have a one-line editable field or a whole rectangle that 
> you can enter any text into.

No, this is a limitation of u_main.tk, because it was written by people 
who haven't learned Tcl/Tk more than the bare minimum, so, they write in a 
pidgin of C and Tcl, and they don't know the listbox command.

I suggest that you don't learn Tcl/Tk by reading u_main.tk.

> You can look at the source in s_main.c, the function sys_argparse has 
> all the possible entries in quotes, but they are not explained

pd -help

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