On 03/08/2014 12:46 PM, Dan Wilcox wrote:
On Mar 8, 2014, at 5:59 AM, pd-list-requ...@iem.at
<mailto:pd-list-requ...@iem.at> wrote:
No. It requires a toolkit that has modern 2d features like affine
transformations and opacity, etc. Pd-l2ork leverages Tkpath, a
tcl/tk library. Other modern toolkits like Qt have their own 2d
interfaces with the same features and could be used, but tcl/tk on
its own does not.
for the non-unix users out there?
For OSX, one of the tcl/tk libraries-- Tkpath needs to be ported from
Carbon to Cocoa.
I have this about halfway done. I finally found the old QuickTime
Carbon headers so I could port the old school font creation to
CoreText. All of the old Quick Draw stuff is no longer on the Apple
Developer docs, so it was a bit confusing at first. It will take a
little while though since I dip into it now and then among everything
else.
Hey that's great!
I can probably help once you get that part ready. One issue will be to
making sure everything builds using a newer version of tcl/tk than what
Pd-extended currently ships with. It might be good just to go ahead and
try 8.6 since it has some new tk::mac goodies.
I haven't investigated a Windows port yet but it's probably mostly a
matter of setting up the proper compile environment more than
anything else. Granted one would probably need to tweak pd.tk and
L2ork's build script, but getting set up in Windows seems to be where
most of the work is. (At least in my experience so far.)
It shouldn't require too much beyond the current steps to build
vanilla or extended on Windows: a mingw + msys enviornent. Tkpath uses
an autoconf build system so it should be fine on Windows as long as
you point it to the tcl/tk headers. The issue with OSX is that it
simple hasn't been updated in a while but I imagine it's fine on
Windows since MS moves very very slowly as far as moving to new APIs
is concerned.
There are a few other tk libs Pd-l2ork uses. I'm also assuming Tkpath
doesn't have any crashers in Windows-- I haven't tried it yet.
-Jonathan
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Dan Wilcox
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