Shipping and using DejaVu font on Ms-Windows

[Lucarda]

This PR is fully described here:
http://lucarda.com.ar/x/dejavu/readme.html

[umlaeute]

as I find little use in having to click another time to see what this PR is about, I copy it here verbatim:

This is intended for Miller's builds on ms-windows adding the fonts and TWAPI to his compressed files on "pdprototype.tgz" that is included on the [MSW folder](https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/tree/master/msw of the Pd-sources

Decompressing "pdprototype.tgz" we get a lot of ingredients on the cake and we are adding a couple of cherrys to it on the "lib" folder:

Tcl8.5 (existing folder)
Tk8.5 (existing folder)
DejaVuSansMono.ttf
DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf
twapi_base.dll
LICENSE-twapi

Then we add this lines to "pd-gui.tcl" just below "win32" for the proc init_for_platform {} at the time of writing on line 365:

Adding dejavu fonts on mswindows

package require twapi
twapi::AddFontResourceEx lib/DejaVuSansMono.ttf
twapi::AddFontResourceEx lib/DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf

This pd-gui.tcl does not crash other OS but will crash Windows if TWAPI is not there. I've tested it and the crash nicely reports the offending line of pd-gui.tcl.

This will deploy Dejavu font on the ZIP version and also the Installer version. I can't test the latter.

It is easy to implement and very easy to throw away if no longer needed.

[umlaeute]

please catch any errors.

[umlaeute]

this should be protected by a catch clause.

if twapi isn't there (for whatever reasons), Pd is still perfectly usable, so there's little use in erroring out.

[Lucarda]

My tcl is just trial and error, I'm not a programer. Could you do it? or tell me how to?

Anyway I have to commit a missing file on the "pdprototype.tgz" which is causing a Windows crash.

"pkgIndex.tcl"

I just did a build of this PR and got the error.

: - )

[Lucarda]

Ok I added a catch clause and other stuff to pd-gui.tcl and changes to “pdprototype.tgz”

Now the font files are placed on the pd/bin directory.

[umlaeute]

this might just be nitpicking, but if I were to accept the PR, I'd suggest you don't change both source-code (the tcl-file) and opaque binaries (the tgz) in a single commit.

(but then: the PR must be accepted by miller not me - he might think differently)

[Lucarda]

@umlaeute

the PR must be accepted by miller not me - he might think differently)

I hope so because I can't figure out how to undone the commits (I'm rather new to GIT).

Can you review the changes you requested?

[Lucarda]

@umlaeute
I did a new PR #270 with all your requested changes.
Can you review it?
: - )