[PD-dev] release April?

[Miller Puckette]

I've been hoping for 20-ish years to find time to make a *unified* 
slider/numbox/knob/radio object.  It probably would be hard to make such 
a thing perfectly compatible with all the screwy features the classical 
GUIs offer (like numbers with the text sticking outside the box, ugh), 
but, long-term, such a combined object could be the default "gui" menu 
offerings and we could just leave all the crufty IEM GUI code as is for 
back compatibility.

ALSO we need a cleaner VU meter - that would be a different object and 
should be resizable to much smaller than the current minimum size.  That 
too could have a spanking new, clean implementation.

Anyway, I've been holding off on introducing yet one more ad-hoc GUI 
device until I (or someone :) can make a properly unified GUI for 
numerical controls.

cheers

Miller


On 3/14/24 13:46, Dan Wilcox wrote:

> Even better. Then it has been in testing for a *long* time now. ;)
>
>> On Mar 14, 2024, at 1:44 PM, Christof Ressi <info at christofressi.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> I think Antoine's knob implementation is actually based on mknob, but 
>> with lots of refinements.
>>
>> On 14.03.2024 13:39, Dan Wilcox wrote:
>>> I agree.
>>>
>>> There is also the mknob from moonlib which I have actually 
>>> replicated for PdParty. I think both of these knob implementations 
>>> fit nicely with the other IEM guis.
>>>
>>>> On Mar 14, 2024, at 12:00 PM, pd-dev-request at lists.iem.at wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 13:10:19 +0100
>>>> From: Christof Ressi <info at christofressi.com>
>>>> To:pd-dev at lists.iem.at
>>>> Subject: Re: [PD-dev] release April?
>>>> Message-ID: <f8bc28fd-f54c-4814-828b-686aa2fbfd6d at christofressi.com>
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>>>> I strongly endorse both PRs :)
>>>>
>>>> Fractional zoom levels would be a game changer! The current integer 
>>>> zoom
>>>> levels are pretty much useless in practice because typical scaling
>>>> factors are more like 125% or 150%.
>>>>
>>>> A knob is such a basic UI element for audio applications. I really 
>>>> think
>>>> this should be part of Pd vanilla and not require some external. It
>>>> isn't (only) about aesthetics; knobs have clear advantages over sliders
>>>> in many situations as they allow to map the same range into a much
>>>> smaller space. Just think about a simple mixer strip!
>>>>
>>>> Christof
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