Anyhow I just pushed a fix so that functions like sys_fontwidth() never report less than one pixel - this should get rid of divides by zero without having to call sys_fakefromgui().
cheers M On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 10:56:09PM +0200, Pierre Guillot wrote: > Yes, I think that's the first case but I surely need to better understand > this part of the code. In fact, I have no idea what is considered as part > of the GUI or not... I mean, in my case, I don't really have a graphical > interface but I would like to get the informations of the objects that > depends on the font sizes. If I don't call sys_fakefromgui(), I get a > division by zero somewhere because the font sizes are not initialized (and > perhaps there are other errors but I don't reach these parts of the code). > Anyway with the previous version of Pd I didn't have to call this function > so didn't really look at that but now I would like to know what it really > does and if there is a proper way to initialize this part of Pd. > > Thanks! > Pierre > > > 2017-07-15 19:36 GMT+02:00 Miller Puckette <m...@ucsd.edu>: > > > Do I understand correctly that you're trying to run libpd _without_ the > > GUI and discovering that you have to copy code from sys_fakefromgui() to > > get it to work? > > > > Or, rather, are you actually trying to start the GUI up and need to know > > the path to the GUI files? > > > > In the latter case, I was tacitly assuming that people distributing libpd > > apps that wanted to be able to use Pd's GUI would bundle the entire Pd > > GUI package (Wish, pd/tcl, pd/po, probably more) with their installation, > > as different libpd apps might require different versions. > > > > cheers > > Miller > > > > On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 04:30:16PM +0200, Pierre Guillot wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I started to update my project zpd [1] with the last version of Pd > > (before > > > testing the new features in libpd) but I don't really understand how the > > > function sys_startgui() should be used and what it does [2] . In the > > > Miller's branch of libpd, the example [3] use a relative path but I don't > > > know what is the path to my application and what should be the target of > > > the path. I asked on GitHub and Dan explained me that I should give the > > > path to the tcl scripts to start the Pd GUI but what if I don't have Pd > > > installed? The solution I found for the moment is to copy the static > > > function sys_fakefromgui() [4] but it's dirty and not very sustainable. > > > > > > Anyone has a solution? > > > Best, > > > > > > Pierre > > > > > > [1] https://github.com/pierreguillot/zpd > > > [2] https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/blob/master/src/s_ > > inter.c#L1377 > > > [3] > > > https://github.com/libpd/libpd/pull/171/files/ > > ddd6ef004c00ca41f1834fcb5bf5f72f972bc20d..35e4272a2c3ba610836fa4cdff3bea > > 99dac815fb#diff-44ec7e62314f045847d1166bd74411b5R77 > > > [4] > > > https://github.com/libpd/libpd/pull/171/files/ > > ddd6ef004c00ca41f1834fcb5bf5f72f972bc20d..35e4272a2c3ba610836fa4cdff3bea > > 99dac815fb#diff-44ec7e62314f045847d1166bd74411b5R77 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Pd-dev mailing list > > > Pd-dev@lists.iem.at > > > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-dev mailing list > Pd-dev@lists.iem.at > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev _______________________________________________ Pd-dev mailing list Pd-dev@lists.iem.at https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
