[PD-dev] working towards Pd-0.40.3-extended

Steffen Juul stffn at dibidut.dk
Tue Oct 30 22:20:34 CET 2007


On 29/10/2007, at 16.10, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> Since you are interested in the GUI, sounds like it would be best  
> if you worked on that.  For example, a real preferences pane with  
> tabs on it would be really nice.  I'll happily help you make that  
> happen, if you interested.  The Tcl/Tk part is not too hard to  
> learn, you mostly avoid the Pd/Tcl oddness, so it would a good  
> place to start.  In Pd.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pd.tk, check out:  
> pdtk_path_dialog, pdtk_startup_dialog, pdtk_audio_dialog,  
> pdtk_midi_dialog.  For the most part, this is straight Tcl/Tk GUI  
> building, which is quite similar to Java and other things.

It would be a challenge. But i'll look into it and see how it goes.  
It would for sure be a cool thing to add.

There are also, to my knowledge, some issues with scrolling and  
adding of scroll-bar at load time if the window is smaller then the  
patch. And sometimes the window is bigger then my screen which  
renders use problems as i can't even get to resize. ( -- This is  
partly due to the (lame) way the os x wm is designed but still a  
problematic issue from Pd point of view, imho. I don't know if this  
only happens on os x though.)

Are all the other GUI patches in /packages/patches ported to work up  
against 0.40-3?

If not there are some (disable_close_confirm-0.39.2.patch, cmd- 
click_manipulates_GUIs-0.41.0-test03.patch, pd_autoscrollbars-0.40- 
pre.patch, pd_controls-anchor-fix-0.40-pre.patch) i'm particular  
willing to help with.

Also scrolling in the help browser, is that just a bonus of a newer  
Tcl/Tk version or is invoked by a patch somewhere?

> I just did some work on the key bindings in the panels.  Return  
> hits OK and Esc hits cancel in all the panels now.  Plus Cmd/Ctrl-w  
> closes all the windows, including the help browser, find panel,  
> etc.  Then I added the "Clear Pd window" option to the Edit menu.  
> You can stick the attached pd.tk in the latest Pd-extended release  
> to try these changes.

Thats great. Really useful features. Just as a note ctrl/cmd-w  
doesn't close the Font Bomb. Esc and Return doesn't have effect there  
either. 




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