[PD] auto-completion with popup [was: 3 new gui-plugins]

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On May 6, 2011, at 7:16 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:

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> On 05/07/2011 12:17 AM, Patrice Colet wrote:
>> ok, but pd-vanilla is actually 0.43 and has tcl/tk-8.4, while pd- 
>> extended is 0.42 and has tcl/tk-8.5,
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> "pd-vanilla does not "have" tcl/tk 8.4
> actually it doesn't have any tcl/tk, and can be used 8.4 or 8.5 or 8.6
> (other versions i have not tested).
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> i _assume_ that you are using Pd on w32 and the w32-binaries come with
> tcl/tk 8.4. if so, you should say that (you are on w32), to help us
> understand your problem.
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> anyhow, you might want to update your tcl/tk.


If you are talking about Pd-vanilla on Windows, then it does indeed  
have Tcl/Tk 8.4.  Its included in it.  And Pd-vanilla on Mac OS X is  
linked against the built-in version of Tcl/Tk, so on Mac OS X older  
than 10.6, Pd-vanilla binaries will use 8.4.7, which is even worse  
than 8.4.19.

.hc

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