2010/4/17 Mathieu Bouchard <ma...@artengine.ca> > On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, András Murányi wrote: > > One (hard) aspect of GUI design in case of Pd is that the GUI widgets are >> provided by Tcl/Tk at the moment, which does not allow for such kind of >> skinning, afaik. >> > > Tcl/Tk up to 8.4 allow some amount of configuration... at least much more > than has ever been used by anyone in pd.tk. > > Tcl/Tk introduced the TkTile toolkit, for which I've heard that the big new > feature is that you can skin it. I haven't tried it myself. Meanwhile, I'm > using Pd-Extended with Tcl/Tk 8.5 while, officially, this very same version > of Pd-Extended is said to "not support" Tcl/Tk 8.5. On top of that, Miller > still wants to support Tcl/Tk 8.3 for some upcoming releases, and such > things that were already becoming obsolete in 2003. > > > There has been talk, however, about migrating to another GUI toolkit. >> > > Talk, talk, talk, it's only talk. > Arguments, babble, bicker bicker bicker, brouhaha, it's only talk. > > Well, lets be happy we have this wonderful ability to articulate words... ;o) As it has been mentioned, "anyone" can start porting Pd to another toolkit. The question for me here is, if Miller, Hans, and other core people are interested in leaving Tcl/Tk behind, and if yes, how soon?
Andras
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