[PD] connecting pd-gui to pd

[Miller Puckette]

I think I'd suggest not including the port-listneing part in the extern,
but only the gui-opening-and-closing functions.  You can get to it from
outside Pd by setting up a netreceive object (or even responding to a
special hand-clap).

cheers
Miller

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:02:57AM +1000, Jeremiah Rose wrote:
> Ok, thanks.
> 
> Would it be possible to write an extern for pd-vanilla that provides the
> start_gui / stop_gui functions Miller describes, but also listens to the
> port specified by -guiport, so that the GUI is started when pd-gui is run
> in another terminal / on another machine?
> 
> Or would that be better implemented by branching pd-vanilla?
> On 16/09/2016 8:21 AM, "Dan Wilcox" <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I don’t think so. That work is *related* but does not apply to the regular
> > desktop pd. It’s more for launching the gui from a running libpd instance,
> > not externally as far as I remember.
> >
> > --------
> > Dan Wilcox
> > @danomatika <https://twitter.com/danomatika>
> > danomatika.com
> > robotcowboy.com
> >
> > On Sep 15, 2016, at 4:10 PM, Jeremiah Rose <jeremiah.aaron.rose at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Hi Dan, so the functionality I described earlier should work if I compile
> > your branch of libpd?
> >
> > And then I could run a patch from Python without too many problems?
> >
> > Thanks guys,
> > Jeremiah
> > On 16/09/2016 12:41 AM, "Miller Puckette" <msp at ucsd.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> No worries.
> >>
> >> I _think_ I should make equivalent cals part of Pd Vanilla,
> >> user-accessible,
> >> in which case I'm not even sure libpd will need a separate call... but I
> >> have some more thinking to do on that.
> >>
> >> cheers
> >> M
> >>
> >> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 08:25:26AM -0600, Dan Wilcox wrote:
> >> > I brought your changes into the “gui_control” branch manually after I
> >> accidentally closed the PR a while ago: https://github.com/libpd/libpd
> >> /tree/gui_control <https://github.com/libpd/libpd/tree/gui_control>
> >> >
> >> > I haven’t merged yet as I was waiting for people to double check / test.
> >> >
> >> > --------
> >> > Dan Wilcox
> >> > @danomatika <https://twitter.com/danomatika>
> >> > danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/>
> >> > robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/>
> >> > > On Sep 15, 2016, at 4:00 AM, pd-list-request at lists.iem.at wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > I believe libpd already has this capability (I've been using it but
> >> am not
> >> > > sure my changes made it upstream).
> >> >
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