Well, I wanted to take this on if others thought it was a good idea, but my laptop was just stolen from my flat (brand new Macbook Pro!).. arg. Hopefully I can scrape together a linux pc or something soon. If so, I´ll chime back in on this thread for suggestions.<br>
<br><div>rich</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/1/22 Hans-Christoph Steiner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hans@at.or.at">hans@at.or.at</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><div><div>On Jan 22, 2010, at 1:12 PM, András Murányi wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">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" target="_blank">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><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>
</div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div></div></div>In 0.43, the prefs dialogs are split out into separate Tcl files:<div>dialog_audio.tcl</div><div>dialog_midi.tcl</div><div>dialog_path.tcl</div><div>dialog_startup.tcl</div>
<div><br></div><div>I think each in its own tab makes a lot of sense.</div><div><br></div><div>.hc</div><div><br><div> <span style="font-size:12px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px 0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px 0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br>
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