[PD] pd 0.43-0 released

Jamie Bullock jamie at postlude.co.uk
Tue Mar 22 19:57:39 CET 2011


On 21 Mar 2011, at 23:26, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> 
> On Mar 21, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Bernardo Barros wrote:
> 
>> Hi Miller and other devs,
>> 
>> PD 0.43 has an annoying bug... He somehow capture a color from the
>> default color theme system and applies to background color of the
>> canvases. I use Openbox, but I have KDE installed (Arch). I reported
>> this last year, but it seems nobody looked at it...
>> 
>> Happy debugging season! :-)
>> 
>> Cheers
> 
> 
> Try fixing it with a GUI plugin:
> 

So is this really a bug, or a feature?

Either way, it seems to me that users should have to write GUI plugins to make Pd have a usable background colour.

Jamie

> - make a new file, call it ANYTHING-plugin.tcl, replace ANYTHING with what you want to call it
> 
> - save this file into your externals path:
> http://puredata.info/docs/faq/how-do-i-install-externals-and-help-files
> 
> - try adding this line to your ANYTHING-plugin.tcl file:
> 
> option add *PatchWindow*Canvas.background "blue"
> 
> 
> You can see an example here:
> http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data/trunk/scripts/guiplugins/simple_examples/gtklook-plugin.tcl?revision=15038&view=markup
> 
> .hc
> 
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