PDCON:Conference/GUI Plugins in Pd 0.43: Difference between revisions

With the release of 0.43, there are some rather large changes in the source code focused on the Tcl/Tk side of the GUI, mostly in the form of the pd-gui process where Tcl/Tk is running. While all code related to the GUI was not rewritten, the vast majority of code running in ‘pd-gui’ was rewritten. One of the key features of the rewrite of ‘pd-gui’ is the ability to modify and extend the GUI and its behaviors using plugins.

As some GUI plugins have taken shape, there has been some work to smooth the process. This is all still very new and raw, there is not much of a real API yet, and we have not had enough experience with widespread deployment and use of GUI plugins, so we still figuring out how we should do this. It is perhaps not even clear that it is a a good idea, though the author believes that is starting to be clear that GUI plugins will be very useful to many people.