[PD] Pd-GUI-Rewrite 0.43 status: usable
Miller Puckette
mpuckett at imusic1.ucsd.edu
Tue Jan 19 06:00:26 CET 2010
It's stupid -- you press it to find out what timing errors have occurred
recently, in an unreadable format. The whole thing needs to be
rethought :)
thanks
M
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:26:33PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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> On Jan 18, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
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> >[Kind of picky...]
> >
> >In the console, there's a checkbox with the clickable text "DSP." I
> >know
> >acronyms are normally capitalized, but in this case if the text read
> >"dsp", the tk label/checkbox would accurately reflect the message one
> >sends to pd to turn audio on and off (with the checkbox fulfilling
> >the 0/1 argument).
> >
> >I think someone complained recently that DSP would be less clear to a
> >beginner than "compute audio." I think that's true, so if the
> >beginner
> >has to read a help file to figure out what it means, they might as
> >well
> >learn the message "dsp 0" and "dsp 1" at the same time (and be
> >reminded of
> >the _exact_ selector everytime they look at the console).
>
> "compute audio" is easier to understand, but it then doesn't match the
> 'pd dsp' message or the Media menu items. I think overall, its easier
> if people learn that DSP means computing audio as well as other
> things, and the term DSP is used consistently throughout. I don't have
> a strong feeling on upper vs lower case on DSP tho.
>
> >In a similar vein: what about "audiostatus" instead of "DIO"?
> >
> >-Jonathan
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> I never use the DIO button and don't really know what it is, so I left
> it as is ;-) As far as I can gather its an error light for if there
> are communications troubles with the audio interface.
>
> .hc
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