[PD] Pd-GUI-Rewrite 0.43 status: usable

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 13, 2010, at 4:45 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:

> Am 13.01.10 10:26 schrieb "cyrille henry" unter <ch at chnry.net>:
>
>> hello,
>>
>> yes, it is now compiling.
>> but i've got this message in pd log :
>>
>> WARNING: Font family 'Courier' not found, using default (courier)
>
> got the same also on Ubuntu 9.10 (I was still using tcl/tk8.4,  
> probably this
> would go away with 8.5?)

Try it and report back please :).  Definitely use Tcl/Tk 8.5, it is a  
big improvement.

>> and :
>>
>>
>> /home/nusmuk/pd/Gem/src/Gem.pd_linux: /home/nusmuk/pd/Gem/src/ 
>> Gem.pd_linux:
>> undefined symbol: s_symbol
>> /home/nusmuk/pd/Gem/src/Gem: can't load library
>
> got the same with maxlib/netclient:
> /usr/local/lib/pd/extra/maxlib/netclient.pd_linux:
> undefined symbol: s_float
> can't load library
>
> I haven't tried recompiling maxlib against pd-gui-rewrite yet. Would  
> this be
> supposed to solve the problem?

I haven't tested this, I don't know what an 0.42 binary wouldn't work  
with 0.43.  I know Miller has added some code to 0.43, but I don't  
remember the details.

> Sorry for repeating myself, but the new window-hierarchy menu is  
> _really_
> great, since it eases navigation in patches so much! Thanks for your  
> work,
> Hans!


Glad you like it!  Hopefully, it also means that 'pd' is doing less  
work building that menu than the previous menu while 'pd-gui' is  
handling the rest.

.hc


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