Re: [PD-dev] [PD] [ANN] new external: tracker

2007-09-22 Thread federico
I think i had success building it on OS X with the attached Makefile. thank you, I'll include it in the distribution The properties dialog works, it seams. I haven't had time to really play with it. It seams quite cpu greedy, as it make Pd eat 60% cpu that's sad :( on Linux just it takes 1%

Re: [PD-dev] more on the 12 point font mystery

2007-09-22 Thread Miller Puckette
HI HC, Pd has code automatically to do that, which is disabled in your font patch for some reason: /* best is now the host font index for the desired font index i. */ sys_fontlist[i].fi_hostfontsize = atom_getintarg(3 * best + 2, argc, argv);

Re: [PD-dev] more on the 12 point font mystery

2007-09-22 Thread federico
sorry but I couldn't find fonttest.tcl on my computer, and even with google. can you post a link, or the script itself? On 9/22/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 8.4.14+cvs on Mac OS X 8.4.12 on Ubuntu/feisty Please take screenshots of fonttest.tcl on 8.5, I'd be

Re: [PD-dev] more on the 12 point font mystery

2007-09-22 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
You can get it in the link I posted at the start of this thread: http://pow.idmi.poly.edu/~hans/pdfonts/fonttest/fonttest.tcl .hc On Sep 22, 2007, at 6:15 PM, federico wrote: sorry but I couldn't find fonttest.tcl on my computer, and even with google. can you post a link, or the script

Re: [PD-dev] more on the 12 point font mystery

2007-09-22 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Hey, I just added Windows picks of the fonttest.tcl. If you at those images in sequence, you can see there are only really tiny variations on each platform, EXCEPT 12 point on GNU/Linux. Strange, but that's the way it seems to be. As for the existing size measuring code, I think it was

Re: [PD-dev] more on the 12 point font mystery

2007-09-22 Thread Miller Puckette
Hi HC, Two issues I don't know how to deal with yet: first, although I agree the fonts you're using seem to have nearly consistent sizes, they are smaller than the traditional sizes so everyone's existing patches will look wrong. For compatibilty's sake Pd should somehow read old patches with the

Re: [PD-dev] more on the 12 point font mystery

2007-09-22 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Sep 22, 2007, at 10:00 PM, Miller Puckette wrote: Hi HC, Two issues I don't know how to deal with yet: first, although I agree the fonts you're using seem to have nearly consistent sizes, they are smaller than the traditional sizes so everyone's existing patches will look wrong.