[PD] zenity plugin for Pd 0.43 WAS: magicglass WAS: call for testers for L2Ork iteration of pd-extended (based on 0.42.x branch)

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 25, 2010, at 6:27 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> (and a random aside, perhaps you'd be interested in getting Pd to  
>>>> use
>>>> the GTK open panel?  I've always hated the Tcl/Tk one).
>>>
>>> How would one go about doing this?
>>
>> I believe that gnocl is the thing that you are looking for:
>>
>> http://wiki.tcl.tk/5151
> Actually a really 'quick and dirty' solution would be to call zenity  
> [1] from within the tk.. Which IMHO is better than the Tk file  
> opener.. Attached a version of pd.tk (0.42.5-extended-rc5 linux)  
> which will try touse zenity for open, falling back to Tk if zeniy is  
> not found (sorry my tcl is really really rusty :-)
>
> Lorenzo.
>
> [1]: http://freshmeat.net/projects/zenity


That would make a great GUI plugin for Pd 0.43.  Basically the plugin  
would just override pdtk_openpanel and pdtk_savepanel (now in pd/tcl/ 
wheredoesthisgo.tcl).  Just 'rename' the existing ones in your plugin,  
then create your own procs with the same names.

.hc


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