[PD] OSX Gui problems

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

If you have Wish.app and the Frameworks, you can use that.  I think  
if you install them into their normal place, packages/darwin_app/ 
Makefile will find them.  You might have to tweak the Makefile for  
version numbers.

.hc

On Sep 25, 2006, at 1:04 PM, Libero Mureddu wrote:

> Hi, I've downloaded all the packages that are necessary to compile
> pd-extended. My problem is that in the instructions is written that I
> need also the tcl-tk standalone app. From the Tigital website I've
> found only the 8.5 frameworks and the wish shell (without frameworks
> inside).
> What I should do then?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Libero
>
> On 9/20/06, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 19, 2006, at 10:17 AM, Libero Mureddu wrote:
>>
>> >>
>> >> Message: 7
>> >> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:42:47 +0100 (BST)
>> >> From: Ed Kelly <morph_2016 at yahoo.co.uk>
>> >> Subject: [PD] OSX Gui problems
>> >> To: PD List <pd-list at iem.at>
>> >> Message-ID:  
>> <20060919134247.95465.qmail at web26310.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
>> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>> >>
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> 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.
>> >>
>> >> 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.
>> >>
>> >> Best,
>> >> Ed
>> >
>> > Hi Ed
>> > ,
>> > 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!)
>>
>> If there is a pre-built Wish.app with embedded Frameworks for 8.5,
>> then it would be trivial to build a Pd-extended that uses it.
>>
>> Ed, you might just want to try a current version of Pd-extended, like
>> one of the auto-builds.  They use a much newer version of Tcl/Tk than
>> Miller uses.
>>
>> http://autobuild.puredata.info.
>>
>> .hc
>>
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