[PD-dev] Status of GUI rewrite?

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Mon Aug 22 00:20:07 CEST 2011


On Aug 21, 2011, at 1:35 PM, Stephen Lavelle wrote:

> Oh, hey -
>
> Thanks for bringing me up to date : )
>
> >The pd-gui-rewrite effort has been entirely folded into Miller's  
> pure-data.git and is included in the 0.43 release.
> Oh, ok - I hadn't stumbled across the gui plugin setup yet - that's  
> cool : )
>
> The look and feel of Pd is a very personal issue, so now we can  
> customize it a lot using GUI plugins.
> To some extent it is.  The big problem for me is the inlet/outlet  
> size - the precision required isn't something I can comfortably  
> manage on a touchpad.  I'm a more than a little overwhelmed with  
> just getting to grips with pure-data and compiling the code - from  
> what I can tell in the source code, the inlet/outlet drawing is  
> totally hard-coded.  If someone could tell me whether or not this  
> would be possible to do with the gui plugin system, or if it already  
> exists (based on an earnest search, it does not), I would appreciate  
> it : )

You can increase the font size which will make the boxes bigger.   
Also, you might like the new inlet/outlet highlighting that's in Pd- 
extended 0.43 and pd-l2ork.  The inlets and outlets are tagged using  
Tk tags, so you should be able to change their size using the Tk  
canvas commands 'coords' or 'itemconfigure -width', etc.  I've never  
tried tho.

> >As for bugs, please do make bug reports, you can get to the bug  
> report form from the Help menu in Pd.
> I'm a little confused - I didn't mention anything about bugs.

I consider usability problems bugs.

.hc

>
> Thanks : )
>
> S
>
>  For example, I think that straight cords are much more readable  
> than bezier curved cords.  As for bugs, please do make bug reports,  
> you can get to the bug report form from the Help menu in Pd.
>
> .hc
>
> On Aug 21, 2011, at 5:02 AM, Stephen Lavelle wrote:
>
>> Hi -
>>
>> I was just tinkering around with some of the graphics in puredata,  
>> before noticing that there's a GUI rewrite project underway ( http://puredata.info/dev/PdGuiRewrite 
>>  ).  Could someone tell me what the status of this is?
>>
>> I've been tinkering around a little in the code myself,
>>
>> https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-SKz32YaPs3U/TlBQKiAHtyI/AAAAAAAAAdk/_mjg3TRA-GE/Screen%2BShot%2B2011-08-21%2Bat%2B01.23.36.png
>>
>> but see that some of the things I had in mind to do are on their to- 
>> do list, and I may have some other usability suggestions as well.
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