[PD-dev] gtk-open-plugin update

[Lorenzo Sutton]

Dear Hans,

Thanks for the hint, indeed that was the save entry!

I added the save so now both open and save are working. I also unified
the .c sources and the make file in the same dir.
Release candidate is here:
http://puredata.info/community/projects/software/gtk-open-save/releases/0.2

Lorenzo.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: gtk-open-plugin update
From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
To: Lorenzo Sutton <lsutton at libero.it>
CC: pd-dev at iem.at
Date: 01/04/2011 18:49
> Hey Lorenzo, 
>
> I cc'ed pd-dev since this could be generally useful discussion.  The
> save thing works a fair amount different than open, and the messages are
> hidden within the pd <-> pd-gui communications.  The place to start in
> finding the File->Save function is to look at what the File->Save or
> Ctrl-S calls.  In tcl/pd_bindings.tcl, you can see this:
>
>     bind all <$::modifier-Key-s>      {menu_send %W menusave}
>
> So Ctrl-S directly sends 'menusave' to pd.  To find that in the C
> source, I look for '"menusave"' i.e. menusave in double-quotes:
>
>  hans at palatschinken pure-data.git $ grep '"menusave"' src/*.c
>  src/g_readwrite.c:        gensym("menusave"), 0);
>
> Which is a piece of this line:
>
>     class_addmethod(canvas_class, (t_method)canvas_menusave,
>         gensym("menusave"), 0);
>
> So that binds "menusave" to the canvas_menusave function which
> ultimately replies to pd-gui calling the Tcl proc pdtk_canvas_saveas.
> So you just need to override that Tcl proc since that is where
> tk_getSaveFile is called to launch the Save As panel.
>
> .hc
>
> On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 23:35 +0200, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
>   
>> Hans,
>>
>> I was looking into putting the save as well, but as hard as I looked I
>> just can't find where the save is... I was expecting to find something
>> like proc ::pd_menucommands::menu_save but it doesn't seem to be there.
>> In 0.42 I hacked a proc called pdtk_canvas_saveas to have the gtk but I
>> can't find any reference to that either
>> Any clue?
>>
>> Lorenzo
>>     
>
>
>