Hah, to be clear: I only do that when it's absolutely necessary. Thankfully the 
Tk community has been updating things on macOS at a munch greater rate the last 
few years now, so we are running into fewer problems at the Tk level. Also, 
people like Seb have thankfully been assisting and we have the patching 
mechanism in place for if/when we have to apply custom patches to Tk, at least 
for the macOS build process.

I am actually thankful we can also have this conversation... it wasn't so long 
ago that key handling was *broken* on macOS! In my opinion, I defer to the 
system and Tk for this. In fact, the only reason Pd actually respects the 
system setting is that we, the Pd community, added it to Tk! We made a patch 
which includes it a couple years ago, and I believe the Tk devs used it. The 
suggestion for it came from someone *here*, so maybe we have ourselves to blame 
for divergent behavior.? ;)

> On May 4, 2022, at 10:14 AM, pd-list-requ...@lists.iem.at wrote:
> 
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> Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 08:39:29 +0200
> From: IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoel...@iem.at <mailto:zmoel...@iem.at>>
> To: pd-list@lists.iem.at <mailto:pd-list@lists.iem.at>
> Subject: Re: [PD] [key], [keyup] and operating system key reapat
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> PS: i'm happy to fix bugs in the Pd sources; but unlike Dan, I am *ont* 
> willing to patch the Tcl/Tk engine for Pd's sake. i guess this saves me 
> from a few nightmares

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Dan Wilcox
@danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika>
danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/>
robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/>



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