[PD] [PD-announce] Pd 0.54-0 test 1 released

[Dan Wilcox]

I agree. Tabs should default unless a min version check on the platform fails. The original suggestion for making the option to still host dialogs in windows was mine, I believe, large for this reason, ie. building for OS X 10.6 and Tk 8.4 which doesn’t have the tabs widget.

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Dan Wilcox
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> On Jun 21, 2023, at 12:07 PM, Christof Ressi <info at christofressi.com> wrote:
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>> basically, because some TclTk versions on macOS would just crash when using tabs. 
> Wow, Tk never ceases to amaze me...
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> Does this also happen with the Tcl/Tk version that is included in the "official" macOS app bundle?
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> Could we do a runtime check for specific Tcl/Tk versions that are known to work?
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> I think the tabbed preferences are just so nice and it would be shame to hide them from the user by default...
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> (At the very least, we should use tabbed preference by default on Windows and Linux :-)
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> Christof
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>> On 21.06.2023 00:07, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
>>> On 6/20/23 20:35, Christof Ressi wrote:
>>> First off: thanks Miller for this historic release :-)
>>> 
>>> I just discovered the new tabbed preferences and I really like them! Thanks IOhannes!
>>> 
>>> Question: why do we have both tabbed and non-tabbed preferences? This feels very weird to me. I don't see any advantages in the non-tabbed preferences... (I find them rather grotesque).
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>> basically, because some TclTk versions on macOS would just crash when using tabs.
>> so I needed a fallback for this case anyhow (that, albeit grotesque, is still somewhat useable)
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>> gmds
>> IOhannes
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