[PD] Font weirdness with 0.43test

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Sep 9, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> tk scaling is set to a fixed size in Pd 0.43, so it should work  
>> cross-platform.  I suppose its really a matter of testing it.
>
> ah, I tried it and it seems to work. I mean this in particular.
>
> What would be a good way to get the version number of pd, from an  
> external that can run on Pd 41, 42 and 43 at once ?

0.43 declares Tcl variables for this, so you could test for them.   
Check the top of pd/tcl/pd-gui.tcl.

> Btw, in eval_tclentry, the posts seem to be missing the final "\n".  
> Remember that "post" in the Tcl code needs an implicit newline,  
> whereas in the C code, it's implied in post(), not implied in  
> startpost().
>
> I can't get my GUI objects to display at all, and they prevent patch  
> windows from closing, and I get no error messages at all. How should  
> I try debugging this ?


I don't understand, perhaps try "./pd -stderr -d 3"

.hc

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