the damned GUI - was:[PD] Pd in white on black and OSC

[Miller Puckette]

Check out Joe Sarlo's GrIPD -- it's a sort of interface builder you can
put in front of Pd.

cheers
Miller

On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 11:21:40PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> Larry Troxler hat gesagt: // Larry Troxler wrote:
> 
> > I'm kind of bewildered about this as well - to me, PD is just a tool to 
> > *create* something beautifull, namely music. It doesn't need to be artistic 
> > in itself.
> > 
> > And because using PD takes some serious left-brain thinking, I'm a bit 
> > surprised that many users care about it's graphical appearance. But obviously 
> > they do.
> >  
> > I suppose the analogy here would be that some musicians prefer their 
> > instruments to look nice, hence nice looking grand pianos, snazzy looking 
> > guitars, and the like.
> 
> In general I fully agree with your view, because that's pretty much
> the way how I use Pd. 
> 
> But I see an area where looks are important, and that is in building
> interfaces for (live) performances. Here things have to be intuitive
> and very easy and fast to use. To achieve this is quite a bit more
> difficult in Pd than it should be.
> 
> ciao
> -- 
>  Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__
> 
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