[PD-dev] locales and iemgui

[mescalinum at gmail.com]

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> Hey Chun, all,
>
> I am thinking that for adding locales to pd-devel, we should leave  
> iemgui out of it.  It is very messy code that has a lot of legacy use,  
> so that the iemgui stuff would need to have full backwards  
>   

I agree they are very messy.

I am totally for a remake of gui objects, with cleaner code, better
functionality, and all the best.
I believe much time must be spent on design of this, creating a common
codebase for such objects, an API, a set of user requirements, and so on....

which collaborative tool could help in this phase? wiki?

just to throw in some ideas:
* powerful sliders which allow to select range (i.e. a second handle
comes in)
* sliders and radio are basically the same type of object, just that a
radio only would allow integer values
* a bitmap object is missing (a seqence of bits.... just another
representation of an integer)
   also, that could be 2-dimensional, allowing grid of bits... but that
falls out of generality with the radio/slider objects
* preferences dialogs as pd patches? (this may be too ambitious)


my 0.02



> compatibility.  Instead, I think we should build a new GUI library  
> that includes locale support.  In the process we could make a locale  
> API for people who want to write their own GUI objects and include  
>   

where exactly does the locale applies to those objects?
I mean I see really few text around those objects.
could you provide a practical example?

btw I see this could apply well in a bigger picture... e.g. when
rewriting the pd.tk ui

> translations.  I have almost the whole framework for such a library  
> finished, its called 'tkwidgets'.
>   

would be nice to see a demo of it! :)


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