[PD] running vanilla with Tcl 8.5 on OSX

[me.grimm]

i get:

“Pd-0.46-0-64bit-retina” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it
to the Trash."

but maybe that is because i do not have a retina display (mb 2010)

why not fully cocoa-based tk 8.6?

m

On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok retina Mac people, try this:
> http://docs.danomatika.com/Pd-0.46-0-64bit-retina.app.zip
>
> One problem is that the normal 10 point fonts are too thin IMO at the
> retina resolution:
>
>
> On Sep 20, 2014, at 1:17 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ok got it working. I had to touch the Pd app so the OS would reload the
> plist. Here's some comparison screenshots:
>
> <testtone retina.png>
> <testtone no retina.png>
>
> On Sep 20, 2014, at 1:01 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Update:
>
> I updated the Wish binary aka MacOS/Pd in the Pd-0.46-0 from Miller's site
> with the one from my Tk 8.5 Wish.app. Enabling the NSHighResolutionCapable
> key in the Info.plist isn't working though. In any case, using TK 8.5 gives
> me nonaliased fonts & removes the extra "Preferences" entry in the File
> menu.
>
> On Sep 20, 2014, at 11:56 AM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I got it.
>
> As it says in pd/mac/README.txt:
>
> Note: The "wish-shell.tgz" is an archive of this app I found on my mac:
> System/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Versions/8.4/Resources/Wish Shell.app
> A smarter version of the scripts ought to be able to find that file
> automatically on your system so I wouldn't have to include it here.
>
> We just need to use the 8.5 version of Wish. I can put together a script
> to do this if you want.
>
> On Sep 20, 2014, at 1:28 AM, Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu> wrote:
>
> I'll give this a look when I have some time.
>
> Pd's app structure is copied from "Wish Shell.app" - it might work simply
> to
> build it using a different version of wish as a base.  If you want to try
> that
> yourself, I think you can just rebuild Pd using the build-macosx script in
> pd/mac, after having made a new version of a directory "stuff" containing
> wish-shell.tgz (an archive of whatever wish shell version you want) and the
> two auxilliary files pd.icns and pd-file.icns
>
> cheers
> Miller
>
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 12:45:52AM -0400, Dan Wilcox wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how I can clue Pd-vanilla in on using Tcl 8.5 instead of
> 8.4? I tried changing the require version in pd-gui.tcl but no dice:
>
> version conflict for package "Tcl": have 8.4, need 8.5
>    while executing
> "package require Tcl 8.5"
>
> OSX 10.8 has both 8.4 & 8.5 built in and it seems the default tclsh points
> to the 8.5 install, but it seems the method Pd uses to find Tcl & Wish.app
> end up choosing 8.4 instead.
>
> Anyway, I'm asking mainly because with 8.5 you can get "retina" screen
> enabled fonts which are nice and crisp as opposed to Pd's current blurry
> fonts. I remember trying this about 6 months ago after I got the machine
> but ran into the same problem and moved on. Would be nice to provide a
> patch and some info on how to make it work.
>
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