[PD] object to get pdversion/tclversion/basedir

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Sep 12, 2010, at 9:19 PM, 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, 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.

Ok, I added some more names and committed it.  Looks fun!

.hc


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