[PD] Custom menu

B. Bogart ben at ekran.org
Mon May 9 16:01:55 CEST 2005


Hello,

We're working on a revamp of the whole way help files are handled in PD.
  Some of the proposal is at:

http://puredata.org/Members/bbogart/PDDocumentationStructure/

The highlights are:

An automagically filled menu that fills up based on meta-data embeded in
the PD help patch. Through this meta-data the user could also search
through the patches for all loaded externals AND abstractions for keywords.

B>

jmmmp wrote:
> Hello listers,
>
> I was thinking: since most of us have their own utilities (abstractions)
> collection, wouldn't it make sense to include an "expandable" custom
> menu in
> the gui to provide an easy acess to the files? after a certain number,
> it is
> not possible anymore to remember everything.
> I myself don't know how to work with tcl-tk, and maybe I'm too lazy now or
> don't have the time to fool around and find it out (I'm sure it wouldn't be
> difficult). But something like this would be handy:
>
> - the "custom" menu would be there, but empty
> - the documentation would include a couple of lines which would explain how
> to fill up the menu and edit the pd.tk (?) file -> how to name the new
> string, and which patch it opens.
>
> a common base would also allow different users to exchange menus, just
> like patches are now exchanged.
>
> wouldn't that be great?
>
> João Miguel Pais
>
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