Ok, after a busy week this is what I've been able to come up with for the Path dialog. I'm thinking about adapting this UI for the Startup dialog - shouldn't be hard to do - except instead of choosing directories you want to enter arbitrary text. Still, have a look and let me know what you think - I've set up some various key bindings so I want to make sure it seems usable for everyone. So far I've only tested this on Mac OS X, so feedback on other platforms would be nice. I'll probably get a Windows build at some point as well.<br>
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So, I'm interested in starting with fixing some of the messy dialogs, then working toward getting a mouse-less edit mode.<br>
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That sounds great. I especially like your focus on editing objects prefs.<br>
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For the path/lib pref panel, the attached is what i got at when i stalled.<br>
- It's super messy and only trying to sketch an idea on how to actually do it while learning tcl/tk and getting into Pd src. This sketching need no edits to Pd source code but tries to black-box test first. Depending on the actual implementation one might need to patch s_path.c, hence recompile Pd to do a full test (as opposed to just swap <a href="http://main.tk" target="_blank">main.tk</a>). IOhannes recently got a patch for adding more path/libs into Vanilla that gives more then 10 variables to work with in the Tcl side of Pd. A better fix would be to use another format (not assumed in my test) then pd_path0, pd_path1, ..., pd_pathN - like a 'pd_path' array.<br>
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This test looks like a great start. If it could have in-place editing and the ability to change the order, it would be perfect!<br>
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The path/startup stuff should already be in place for this to plug into, thanks to IOhannes' patch.<br>
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