[PD] Gridflow and fonts on Raspberry Pi

Jack jack at rybn.org
Mon Sep 23 11:03:16 CEST 2013


Le 23/09/2013 02:27, Patrice Colet a écrit :
>  I've collected some tricks since I'm using sys_gui, attached are the ones you might need to build and communicate with your interface through pd, if sys_gui is ok on raspberry, all the tcl and tk code is fully documented online...
>
> Tested on Pd 0.45.0
>
> Colet Patrice
>
> ----- Mail original -----
>> De: "Colet Patrice" <colet.patrice at free.fr>
>> À: "Jack" <jack at rybn.org>, pd-list at iem.at
>> Envoyé: Dimanche 22 Septembre 2013 21:29:24
>> Objet: Re: [PD] Gridflow and fonts on Raspberry Pi
>>
>> Hello jack,
>>
>>   I don't know about raspberry, but it seems tcltk is used for te
>>   GUI,
>> so what about using [sys_gui] for generating the interface?
>>
>>   a toplevel -fullscreen should be able to do what you are looking
>>   for,
>> it's also possible to create fonts
>>
>> Le 22/09/2013 19:10, Jack a écrit :
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I found gridflow for Raspberry Pi here :
>>> http://artengine.ca/acastonguay/gridflow/
>>> And see a message from Claude here about Gridflow font :
>>> http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2006-01/034431.html
>>>
>>> My questions :
>>> I would like to use Raspberry Pi and Pd to render text on a screen.
>>> I guess Gridflow could be the right library to use if it can manage
>>> fonts and if it is stable on RPi ?
>>> Is there an other library (or idea) for this purpose ? For example
>>> : a
>>> pd window in fullscreen with a canvas with text ? In this case, how
>>> to
>>> achieve that (fullscreen without menubar and window title bar with
>>> pd).
>>>
>>> I am on raspbian :
>>> PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy)"
>>> NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
>>> VERSION_ID="7"
>>> VERSION="7 (wheezy)"
>>> Linux raspberrypi 3.6.11+ #538 PREEMPT Fri Aug 30 20:42:08 BST 2013
>>> armv6l GNU/Linux
>>> with Pd-0.45.2 ("") compiled 16:14:18 Sep 17 2013.
>>> Thanx for any help.
>>> ++
>>>
>>> Jack
>>>
>>>
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Hello Patrice,

Very nice ! Ijust test your patch with Pd-0.45.0 ("test 2") on Ubuntu
13.04 and it is working perfectly.
Thanx a lot, I will test soon on Raspberry Pi.
++

Jack





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