[PD] OSX Gui problems

[Libero Mureddu]

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> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:42:47 +0100 (BST)
> From: Ed Kelly <morph_2016 at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: [PD] OSX Gui problems
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> Hi all,
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> I've been making a patch which is gui-heavy, that runs quite well on Linux. The problem is it has been made for somebody who wants it to work on a 1.5GHz Mac Powerbook with OSX.3. Now, the GUI is slow and unresponsive at the moment, and renice-ing the GUI has little effect. The GUI elements are unresponsive regardless of whether the dsp is on or off. It has over 240 GUI objects.
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> Having checked out the list I see that Tk/Aqua has a reputation for sluggish GUI performance. Is there a version of Tcl/Tk I can use that is better on OSX? And if so, how do I create the Pd-0.39-2.app folder that Miller distributes? I need to be making the whole thing (Pd, the patch and the externals used) as one file, so the people I work for can download it, unzip it and run it.
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> Best,
> Ed

Hi Ed
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I'm working on a version of Pd that uses Tcl/Tk 8.5 alpha, that should
solve many of those problems. Until now I'm working trying to
recompile Pd with this version of Tcl/tk.
If you want to join the effort, you are welcome!
 You can find a version of Tcl/tk already compiled for mac at:
http://homepage.mac.com/tigital

If you check the archives, you'll find that Tigital did already some
work in this direction. For example, check:
http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2003-11/015649.html

I think you have to recompile, putting all the externals that you
need, provide a preference file in order to be sure that the libraries
are loaded (as in the pd-extended version for mac by Hans-Cristoph
Steiner), and put all together on a .dmg disk image that you can also
compress. (See on the mac /Application/Utilities/Disk Utility, if I
remember correctly!)

Libero