[PD] object to get pdversion/tclversion/basedir

[Jonathan Wilkes]

--- 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, 6:59 PM
> 
> 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  
> "-"

And here's another revision to add little dropping bng circles 
from the Pd logo, as well as a button inside the pd logo 
to make it easy to clear all the ds instances before saving 
changes.

-Jonathan

> 
> .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
> >>>>>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Programs should be written for people to read, and only
> incidentally  
> for machines to execute.
>   - from Structure and Interpretation of Computer
> Programs
> 
>


      
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