https://github.com/deanm/plask

Plask is a multimedia programming environment.
https://github.com/deanm/plask

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Plask is a multimedia programming environment.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/deanm/plask
• Owner: deanm
• License: other
• Created: 2010-11-18T21:50:31.000Z (about 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-11-26T08:46:23.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-02T17:37:39.981Z (4 months ago)
• Language: Objective-C++
• Homepage: www.plask.org
• Size: 1.22 MB
• Stars: 441
• Watchers: 24
• Forks: 38
• Open Issues: 10
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
Plask is a programming environment for multimedia and computational design.

  www.plask.org

- Getting Plask

For the common user, it is best to use the binary distribution provided at

www.plask.org.  If you're interested in building and running from source, the

following section should help you get started.

- Building and running from source

Plask integrates together quite a few pieces of technology, which unfortunately

makes the build process more complicated.  It is possible to do a boostrapped

build, where you only build the Plask source file, but use prebuilt object

files for Plask's dependencies.  Run the fetch_deps.sh script to download and

extract a copy of these prebuilt dependencies.  When fetching new source

changes to Plask, you will have to be aware if there have been any changes to

the prebuilt dependencies, and if so, to run fetch_deps.sh again.

For example, to build from a completely new checkout would look something like:

  $ sh fetch_deps.sh

  $ xcodebuild -project plask.xcodeproj -configuration Release -target Plask

This should produce Plask.app.  For some technical and design reasons, Plask.app

is effectively a commandline application inside a bundle.  For example, running

Plask.app/Contents/MacOS/Plask on the command line will start a Node-style REPL

loop, an interactive JavaScript shell of sorts.

Pass a filename on the command line to run that JavaScript file.

NOTE: To ease development, the Plask.app built has a symlink to plask.js in

the source.  This allows you to edit plask.js in the source repository without

having to rebuild the project.

A separate project, PlaskLauncher, creates the UI application for launching

Plask by dragging/dropping or File->Open.

- Creating standalone applications

When Plask.app is launched, it will look for a file named main.js inside of

the bundle (in Contents/Resources).  This allows you to easily create

standalone applications by copying Plask.app and putting your JavaScript source

inside of the bundle.

NOTE: When running "bundled", the current working directory will likely be

different from running Plask on the command line.  Generally this means if you

open files you should open a path relative to __dirname, which is Node's global

variable for the directory that your JavaScript file is in.

- Credits

Released under the BSD license.  Full details in the included LICENSE file.

(c) 2010, Dean McNamee 

This software contains code and ideas from the fantastic:

Nicolas Garcia Belmonte

Thatcher Ulrich

Ryan Alexander

Marcin Ignac

Built with the fantastic:

V8 JavaScript Engine

Skia rasterization library

NodeJS

Cocoa and OpenGL

FreeImage

Syphon