[PD] object to get pdversion/tclversion/basedir

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Thu Sep 9 04:12:54 CEST 2010


On Sep 8, 2010, at 9:26 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

> --- On Thu, 9/2/10, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>
>> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>> Subject: Re: [PD] object to get pdversion/tclversion/basedir
>> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: pd-list at iem.at
>> Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010, 11:57 PM
>>
>> Digging thru my backlog... in Pd-extended there is
>>
>> hcs/version
>> tcl/tcl_version
>> ggee/getdir
>>
>> I agree, it would be nice to have the About Pd page be a Pd
>> patch.  If you make one, I'll include it in Pd-extended
>> 0.43.
>
> Ok, here's a 1st attempt.  It would look a lot better if I used
> [entry] to display the Pd version (and possibly tcl version) but
> that object is too buggy to use.
>
> The links work assuming about.pd lives in doc/5.reference.
>
> Btw-
> /usr/lib/pd-extended/LICENSE.txt, referred to in the
> current "about pd" textfile, doesn't exist on my machine.
>
> -Jonathan

I like the sparks and credits animation!  Where is this file designed  
to go in the file system? I think probably the best place would be in  
lib/pd/doc/about.pd

.hc


>
>>
>> .hc
>>
>>
>> On Jul 31, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>>
>>> Is there an object to get the pdversion? If so it
>> would be nice to
>>> replace the "Help->About Pd" textfile with a pd
>> patch so the links could
>>> be clickable. (Also, it would then be possible to do
>> some rolling credits,
>>> as often happens in an "About this Software" window.)
>>>
>>> -Jonathan
>>>
>>>
>>>
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