Purr Data Beta 4
Purr Data Beta 4!
This is the GUI port of Pd-l2ork from tcl/tk to nw.js. Canvas zooming, svg-based data structure drawings, GUI theming, and more...
- automatic translations based on system local (plus German translations)
- added ds tutorial for field parameters
- fixes for automatic multi-connection behavior
- fixes for preset_hub/node
- fix for resizing [cnv] with mouse
- fixes for OSX Makefile
- add feature to open files in the running instance
- port unauthorized/grid
- various other bugfixes
This is a beta release, so please report lots of bugs to
https://git.purrdata.net/jwilkes/purr-data/issues
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Purr Data Beta 3
Purr Data Beta 3!
This is the GUI port of Pd-l2ork from tcl/tk to nw.js. Canvas zooming, svg-based data structure drawings, GUI theming, and more...
- fixed "stale pointer" bug when re-opening a subpatch on a scalar that has an event handler
- added ds tutorial for field parameters
- removed more debugging messages
- updated ds tutorials, add coords tutorial for ds shapes
- fixed stroke-linecap "square" style
- use standard "d" attribute instead of "data" for setting svg data
- fixed for the open dialog
- added feature to format path data into a FUDI message
- added table of contents to help browser
- fixed crasher with scalar dialog handling of vector data
- fixed data properties dialog positioning
- fixed typos in drawnumber_vis that caused sizing bug
- check scroll bars after zooming the canvas
- allow doc/ and extra/ prefixes to search a particular directory (instead of
a natural language search) - allow browsing the docs using native file dialog
- fixed small bugs in the doc search engine
- fixed font size bug on newer versions of Gnu/Linux
- fixed pdogg dependency, bump version to 0.25.2
- fixed regression with broken object box getting recreated with a superfluous cord connection
- now using homebrew on OSX instead of macports (faster install time, smaller install size)
- fixed stroke-dashoffset to stick when scalar is re-vis'd
- lots of other small fixes here and there...
This is a beta release, so please report lots of bugs to
https://git.purrdata.net/jwilkes/purr-data/issues
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Purr Data beta1
This is the beta 2 release of Purr Data (the GUI port of Pd-l2ork)
Change log:
- compatibility with older osx versions
- fix external library dependencies on OSX
- first try at jack support for OSX (oops, had to remove this one)
- more fixes for out-of-order messages to GUI
- fix crasher on Windows when opening a help patch
- fix [draw sprite] index wrapping
- fix freeze with [struct float foo;]
This is a beta release, so please report lots of bugs to
https://git.purrdata.net/jwilkes/purr-data/issues
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Edit: replaced buggy OSX version with 2.1, added comment about removing the jack backend
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Purr Data beta1
This is the beta 1 release of Purr Data (the GUI port of Pd-l2ork)
Change log:
- fix many errors in the GUI
- fix position of popup menu when zooming
- fix scalar crasher
- fix gop display error
- fix disappearing $@
- save gui preset with preferences
- fix segfault with preference changes
- fixed many memory leaks with patches backported from Pd Vanilla
- small fixes to help patches
- add text editor window for [text define]
- add and improve the scalar properties dialog
- add default float arg for Pd's "quit" message (good for test patches)
- updated some external libraries
This is a beta release, so please report lots of bugs to
https://git.purrdata.net/jwilkes/purr-data/issues
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Purr Data alpha6
This is the alpha 6 release of Purr Data (the GUI port of Pd-l2ork)
Change log:
- bump jmmmp to 0.47
- fix extraneous colon in [print -n]
- add missing dll dependencies for various externals for Windows
- fix bug with zombie window sometimes getting created for subpatches
- fix nbox label color not updating
- fix "New Array" dialog buttons to keep from creating multiple arrays
- Windows build simplification-- you can now build a Windows installer
using msys2 in only 7 steps! Works on both win32 and win64 machines - clean up help patches
This is the last alpha, so please report lots of bugs to
https://git.purrdata.net/jwilkes/purr-data/issues
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Purr Data alpha5
This is the alpha 5 release of Purr Data (the GUI port of Pd-l2ork)
Change log:
- added rjlib for Windows and OSX (already available in GNU/Linux)
- more fixes for OSX (thanks to Matt Barber)
- bump fftease, pmpd, lyonpotpourri version (already available in GNU/Linux)
- added fluid~ external
- fix regression with filenames on Windows
- improved Windows installer
- added disis externals for OSX and Windows
- simplified Windows build instructions
- added rpi deb package for Raspbian
- fix regression that kept standard libs from loading on Windows
Please report lots of bugs to
https://git.purrdata.net/jwilkes/purr-data/issues
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Purr Data alpha4
This is the alpha 4 release of Purr Data (the GUI port of Pd-l2ork)
Change log:
- added installer for Windows
- added lyonpotpourri, fftease, and autotune on OSX and Windows builds
- added PDP on OSX (thanks to Matt Barber)
- fixed MIDI dialog
- aesthetic improvements to preferences dialog
- fixed a crasher when using Jack
- fixed bugs with drawnumber and drawsymbol not displaying
- fixed stray js errors
- fixed a GOP display bug
- fixed regression when deleting the last argument in a comment or object box
- fixed bug with the "quick find" bar
- updated jmmmp to 0.46
- fixed red gop rectangle drag anchor
- fixed "double-undo" bug (Thanks to Matt Barber)
Please report lots of bugs to
https://git.purrdata.net/jwilkes/purr-data/issues
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Purr Data alpha3
This is the alpha 2 release of Purr Data (the GUI port of Pd-l2ork)
Change log:
- visual improvements to the dialogs (thanks to Albert Gräf)
- fix error with "couldn't unbind" error with "Put" menu array
- fix resize anchor for [cnv]
- fix problem with starting up on Windows if there's a space in the path
- ported Scope~ from cyclone
- fix bug with disappearing text in object and message boxes
- fix resizing bug with atom box
- fix problem with iemguis in subpatches causing errors in the GUI
- fix message box border
Lots of changes in this one, so expect-- and please report-- lots of bugs to
https://git.purrdata.net/jwilkes/purr-data/issues
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Purr Data alpha2
This is the alpha 2 release of Purr Data (the GUI port of Pd-l2ork)
Change log:
- OSX build included (Thanks to Matt Barber)
- Gem works on Windows now
- fixed bug that broke infinite undo in some cases
- build improvements for deb packages (Thanks to Albert Gräf)
- shorter console messages for legacy tk gui commands (Thanks to Albert Gräf)
- determistic build of deb packages with l2ork_addons/tar_em_up.sh
- you can now use the build instructions to build a binary on Windows with
msys2 - updated moocow and some iem libraries
- fixed bug where the window menus weren't inheriting the OS theme correctly
on GNU/Linux distros
Lots of changes in this one, so expect-- and please report-- lots of bugs to
git.purrdata.net
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Finally:
Albert Gräf added an AUR package here
"This always builds from the latest git sources and can be used as a drop-in replacement for the pd-l2ork or pd-l2ork-git package. Just run yaourt -S purr-data-git and you should be set (be patient, this package takes quite a while to build)."
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Do you often use the struct objects?
@Guest: the [struct] object and scalars have nearly no graphical properties by default. If you define a [struct foo] and create a scalar from it, that scalar only computes a single pixel bounding box that you can "grab" with the mouse. But that is less than what a normal object has (visible rectangle, text, and possibly inlets and outlets).
There are use cases for [struct] with no visual properties-- for example, data structure arrays can be very powerful (if clunky to use).
Of course, there are draw commands like [filledpolygon] which do associate data structures with visual elements. But even there, it's not necessary to actually have gui code like tcl strings in the C code. You can just send messages to the GUI saying that some data was changed, and let the GUI figure out how to change the visual appearance accordingly. You can even just figure out what visual attributes need to be changed and
target those in the GUI message without being too inefficient.
The only time it starts to become a problem is when you try to compute visual properties-- like bounding
boxes, for example-- in Pd. So if you have a data structure visualized with, say, 20 polygons, Pd needs to
recalculate the bounding box every time the mouse is moved over the patch. That's one of the reasons why
they are so inefficient. (But that goes the same for a canvas filled with lots of object boxes.)
I tried to mitigate this somewhat in Pd-l2ork by caching the bbox. But this stuff gets a lot easier if you just do all the GUI manipulation in the GUI. Data structures don't make that separation harder, but they do get easier to manage with a more sensible design.
I've kind of "doubled down" on data structures in the GUI port of Pd-l2ork-- you can now group drawings together, perform affine transformations, change opacity, and even draw sprites. I also added some classes to receive events and change variables without having to use pointers, which makes it much easier to use.
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