[PD] [PD-announce] pd 0.48-0test1 released

[Miller Puckette]

Cool, that seems to be working... 

I think I'll have to confront fractional font sizes pretty soon - more and
more stuff is going to start breaking in TK 8.4.

cheers
Miller

P.S. I hope fatherhood and germany-moving-in are going well - thanks for
being so present on the list while all that's going on!

On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 10:34:30PM +0200, Dan Wilcox wrote:
> 
> > On Jul 16, 2017, at 9:38 PM, Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > Sure enough - with TK 8.5, font sizes are no longer integers; the
> > "font metrics" command appears to return the next-higher integer
> > sizes (thus throwing off box sizes and messing up selecting text within
> > boxes).
> > 
> > I'm not sure what to do - try to adapt Pd to deal with fractional font
> > sizes, or find some way to force TK 5 to use integer-sized fonts, or
> > just give up and use 8.4 for another cycle...
> 
> I'd say keep using the included Wish in mac/stuff. It's Tk 8.4 and still works fine. Then we can work out the kinks in the sizing for the next release and bring in Deja Vu Sans Mono cross platform. I was hesitant to push that for this release as it obviously still needs some attention and testing. I've tried a few fixes now and then, but nothing stuck so far. Frankly, there were many other things that came up first.
> 
> > Incidentally, 8.4 isn't yet building on my MacOS 10.6... maybe I can just
> > include the system-provided one :)
> 
> Any mac TK 8.4 Wish will work, I think. The included one in mac/stuff or the one bundled with macOS. The default behavior for "make app" is to use the traditional, included one to match your previous releases. The system one can be had with:
> 
> mac/osc-app.sh -s 8.4 0.48.0
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