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[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 5, 2007, at 7:55 AM, Patrice Colet wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
>> On Dec 4, 2007, at 7:55 PM, Patrice Colet wrote:
>>> Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
>>>> On Dec 4, 2007, at 4:20 AM, Patrice Colet wrote:
>>>>> Hans Roels a écrit :
>>>>>> I also think this would be a simple but very handy tool, (also in
>>>>>> pd-vanilla...), at this moment I always have to 'navigate' a  
>>>>>> lot to
>>>>>> open files...
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> One parenthesis...(
>>>>>
>>>>> in win32 pd-vanilla it's possible to drag'n'drop patches from  
>>>>> explorer,
>>>>> sometimes this trick can save a lot of clicks'n'time, this  
>>>>> trick already
>>>>> available in 0.37(, when I've started to try puredata,) doesn't  
>>>>> work in
>>>>> pd-extended.
>>>> Really, how do you do that?  I tried on Windows XP using pd- 
>>>> vanilla 0.39.2 and 0.40.2 and could not get any drag-n-drop to  
>>>> work.
>>>
>>> in proc open_file from
>>>
>>> pd-vanilla/bin/pd.tk line 432:
>>>
>>> catch {
>>>     package require tkdnd
>>>     dnd bindtarget . text/uri-list <Drop> {
>>>         foreach file %D {open_file $file}
>>>     }
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> this stuff needs tkdndlib
>>>
>>>
>>> pkgIndex.tcl for windows:
>>>
>>> package ifneeded tkdnd 1.0 [list load [file join $dir  
>>> libtkdnd10.dll] tkdnd]
>>>
>>> in linux I believe we don't need this kind of code for loading tk  
>>> libs if it's installed correctly
>> So you are saying if you install tkdnd, then the tkdnd features  
>> don't work in Pd-extended?
>> It would be very nice to have tkdnd built and included as part of  
>> Pd-extended.  Any interest in taking this on?  Basically, it looks  
>> like the best way to do it would be to import the tkdnd source  
>> code into pure-data CVS, then make it build and install  
>> automatically.  Shouldn't be too hard if tkdnd is easy to build.   
>> Certainly easier than making Pd build with Cygwin :D.
>> .hc
>
>  If the build-system could build and install this tklib and some  
> other ones, it would be just fabulous, and also we would be able to  
> improve the gui a lot more easily. Also I'm not sure about what  
> would be the best place for putting the building code of this feature


I originally started the 'extensions' section in CVS for adding  
things like tkdnd.  I think there could be 'extensions/tcltk' and in  
there we could put things like tkdnd, tkpath, etc.  There would be  
extensions/tcltk/Makefile, which would call the build system for each  
of the packages (tkdnd, tkpath, etc), Then in 'extensions/Makefile',  
it would call 'extensions/tcltk/Makefile' to build and install the  
whole thing.

That's how I was thinking about it, but it could probably be done  
other ways too.

.hc


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