[PD] object to get pdversion/tclversion/basedir

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Thu Sep 9 18:59:11 CEST 2010


On Sep 9, 2010, at 3:49 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

> --- On Thu, 9/9/10, 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 9, 2010, 4:12 AM
>>
>> 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
>
> I made the pddplinks relative to
> doc/5.reference
>
> Here's a revision with the Pd logo.


Ok, I'm adding it to Pd-extended right now :)  The only change I made  
was to make the Tcl version use only "." to separate the numbers, not  
"-"

.hc


>
>>
>> .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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