[PD] hcs/screensize doesn't work w/ -nogui

[Jonathan Wilkes]

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> From: Marco Donnarumma <devel at thesaddj.com>
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>Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 8:49 PM
>Subject: [PD] hcs/screensize doesn't work w/ -nogui
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>any particular reason why it doesn't?

It relies on tcl/tk to measure the screen size.  When you don't load the
gui, you don't load tcl/tk, and thus you are stripped of the tool you need
to get the screen size.


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>you can try to run the help patch, add a [stdout], relaunch the help patch with -nogui.
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>I'm making a simple splashscreen with a gem -nogui patch, and it needs to render the image in the center of the screen.
>I know I could use [shell], but I'd rather a cross-platform solution.
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>can I fix the screensize object or is there another object I'm not aware of?

Does the tclpd library execute with the -nogui flag?  If so it should be pretty
simple to use that to return the screensize.

-Jonathan


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>thanks!
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