(I cc'ed pd-dev since I think this is a topic of general interest).
Yes, that's how it would have to happen, as far as I know. The idea
is to have a simple way to get the messages on the pd-gui side,
something like pd_bind. To start with, I think just having a single
receiver 'pd-gui' setup, then plugins would use something like [pd-gui
mousecursor target(, and whatever proc was registered to receive the
'mousecursor' messages would be called. I think a real simple
implementation would be to just make a ::pd-gui:: namespace, then
people would create procs in ::pd-gui:: to receive messages. So like:
proc ::pd-gui::mousecursor {args} {
$tkcanvas configure -cursor [lindex $args 0]
}
And the pd-gui receiver would just strip the 'pd-gui' part and exec
the rest.
.hc
On Apr 12, 2011, at 2:06 AM, Chris McCormick wrote:
Hi Hans,
I am curious, would it be possible to bind a function in Pd to catch
all
messages and send them through to a tcl/tk proc? Not that I want to
do this, I
am just curious. It might be best to set up a callback style
arrangement where
inside the tcl/tk plugin the developer can make a call specifying
which receive
symbol(s) they would like to listen for. That would make things
pretty flexible
and allow multiple plugins to use the functionality too.
Cheers,
Chris.
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 02:21:06PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner
wrote:
The easiest way is to create a proc in `pd-gui`, then bind a
function in
`pd` to a receive symbol, then have that function call the proc
using
sys_vgui(). I've been thinking that we should have a pre-registered
'pd-gui' receive symbol which will automatically get set to `pd-gui`,
just like the 'pd' receive symbol gets sent to `pd`, but I've never
found
the time. Please beat me to it! :-D
.hc
On Mar 29, 2011, at 2:46 AM, Chris McCormick wrote:
Hi Hans,
Is there any way to use the pd_connect tcl in the same way that it
does pdsend
to receive data back from Pd? I am persuing a bit of a hack of an
idea.
Cheers,
Chris.
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