Rich E wrote:<br>
> Hi list,<br>
><br>
> I was just thinking, as I noticed that Hans made it where Apple+, opens the<br>
> preferences menu on OS X (as does every other native-mac app), why not group<br>
> all the preferences in one dialog, with sub dialogs? This is how other apps<br>
> I use on OS X behave and I find it convenient. Besides, if you save the<br>
> settings, all of the settings get dumped to the preferences file, no? Why<br>
> not have them all in the same dialog, openable by a hotkey.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:14 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hans@at.or.at">hans@at.or.at</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
The only reason its not like that is because someone hasn't done the<br>
work. I'd love to be able to include that work in pd-gui-rewrite. Be<br>
aware, it'll probably require some weirdness, because of the nature of<br>
the messages that the pref panels send to 'pd'. But I don't think it<br>
would be too hard.<br>
<br>
One downside is that it you couldn't use Tcl/Tk 8.5 if you want it to be<br>
included in Pd-vanilla. But I am planning on switching Pd-extended 0.43<br>
to Tcl/Tk 8.5 and above, since 8.5 adds a lot of very useful GUI stuff.<br>
<br>
.hc<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Let me think a bit forward on this... when you say a dialog and sub dialogs, do you mean a dialog with multiple tabs (that is what i see to be popular in practice) or literally many modals available from one central modal?<br>
I'd say tabs make the most sense, but i see that some of the dialogs are produced by the C <br>side not Tcl/Tk (are they?) in which case it will not be easy to stuff them into the tabs.<br>I'm asking because i would be willing to code this up.<br>
<br>Andras<br><br></div></div>