[PD] pd-gui-rewrite testing

[Rich E]

Still in OS X 10.6.  I don't have one of these problems with Pd-devel-0.43
(dec 15) nightly build, so it must all be because of the tk/cocoa version
that you mention.  I'm not sure how to report it a tcl mailing list, as I
don't know where the code is that implements these things.

Does it make sense that the arrow keys are detected differently in Tk/Cocoa,
so they are just sent to pd's gui C code as spaces?

As for the text color issue in the audio settings, you'll have to point me
towards what is controlling that.  I'll send you a screenshot after this
email.

Do you know how I can force configure to use Tcl/Tk 8.5.7/Carbon?

I'll use the nightly build in the meantime and let you know what comes up.

-rich

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 4:40 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>wrote:

>
> First off, which platform?  Is this still Mac OS X 10.6?  If so, 10.6 has a
> built-in custom version of Tcl/Tk 8.5.7 that uses Cocoa for the back end
> rather than Carbon.  Tcl/Tk 8.6 will only use this Cocoa backend, but will
> work on Mac OS X 10.5.  It would be good to flush out these bugs and report
> them to the tcl-mac list so that they can get fixed.
>
> One thing to try is using one of the nightly builds, which include Tcl/Tk
> 8.5.7/Carbon.  I think they should work on 10.6:
> http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/latest/
>
> On Nov 16, 2009, at 1:55 PM, Rich E wrote:
>
>  Hi List, Hans,
>>
>> I've been using the pd-gui-rewrite-0.43 svn for a couple days now and here
>> are some notes I've taken when finding various bugs (is the better sent to
>> the pd-dev list?):
>>
>> • In Audio Settings, the text in the drop down menus is hardly visible
>> because it is very light grey
>>
>
> Never seen that, screenshot?
>
>
>  • there is a new menu item called 'apple' with "about pd" and preferences"
>>
>
> Known issue with the Tk/Cocoa, haven't found a workaround yet.
>
>
>  • editing an object name:
>> ‣ moving with arrows adds a space to the end, but does not move within the
>> object name
>>
>
> Hmm, can't reproduce, Tk/Cocoa issue?
>
>
>  • opening "about pd" gives an error:
>> ‣ Error: can't read "pd_myversion": no such variable"
>> ‣ an't read "pd_myversion": no such variable
>> can't read "pd_myversion": no such variable
>>    while executing
>> "regsub -all PD_VERSION $bigstring2 $pd_myversion bigstring3"
>>    (procedure "::pd_menucommands::menu_opentext" line 15)
>>    invoked from within
>> "::pd_menucommands::menu_opentext "$dirname/$basename""
>>    (".txt" arm line 1)
>>    invoked from within
>> "switch -- [string tolower [file extension $basename]] {
>>        ".txt"    {::pd_menucommands::menu_opentext "$dirname/$basename"
>>        } ".c"    {::..."
>>    (procedure "menu_doc_open" line 4)
>>    invoked from within
>> "menu_doc_open doc/1.manual 1.introduction.txt"
>>    (menu invoke)
>>
>
> Its not implemented yet...  I was hoping to make "About Pd" a pd patch.
>
>
>  I have some time on my hands now that I finished my Master's, and frankly
>> I think the pd-vanilla GUI is unpleasant, so I could learn tcl/tk and help
>> out, if needed.
>>
>
> That would be great!  Your reports have already been helpful.  I'm going to
> be in pretty deep this month till its finished and merged into Miller's 0.43
> version.  He's been relatively scarse on the lists, but we've been working
> thru this stuff off-list.
>
> .hc
>
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