[PD] C++ for reusable dsp lib - or better use C?
Jonathan Wilkes
jancsika at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 22 22:51:11 CET 2012
----- Original Message -----
> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>; "pd-list at iem.at" <pd-list at iem.at>; IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 2:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] C++ for reusable dsp lib - or better use C?
>
> Le 2012-02-22 à 09:05:00, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit :
>
>> That's great news.
>>
>> Would you mind giving me the link to the stable, actively maintained
> library that makes Qt available for Tcl? I look forward to testing it out.
>
> I'm not responsible for every project or category of projects that I
> mention, so I can't guarantee you that any of those wrappers are well-made
> or worth using.
>
> Tcl may be one of the lesser languages for Qt. The intersection of Tcl and Qt
> users is somewhat small, but even so, there are multiple projects about the same
> thing.
>
> First look at http://wiki.tcl.tk/2181
>
> Skip over TclQt, it's a windows binary thing that doesn't come with
> source (even though it's on SF.net) and it's very old. There's
> another one named Tq that is supposedly better but it's commercial and
> probably abandoned.
>
> Look at Qtcl. The source is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtcl/ and I could
> get it to compile after I installed qmake and libqt4-dev. I didn't try it.
It looks old and unmaintained, and I doubt it supports the newest version of
Qt which has introduced the graphics view stuff plus probably a lot of other changes.
But I will give it a shot.
>
> If Qtcl works well, it could be a possible path for speeding up the GUI, by
> replacing Tk entirely, but keeping Tcl (which is easier than changing everything
> at once). But there are other paths (the ones I suggested recently).
The only other path I remember is patching Tk to make it more efficient, but you still wouldn't
get zooming with that.
>
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