[PD-dev] Status of GUI rewrite?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Aug 21, 2011, at 6:55 PM, Stephen Lavelle wrote:

> 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.
> Their hitboxes aren't though - canvas_doclick in g_editor.c has hard- 
> coded numbers.

Arg, yes, that's true... sigh...  but I find the inlet/outlet  
highlighting helps a lot.

.hc

>> >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.
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> I consider usability problems bugs.
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>> Thanks : )
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>>  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.
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>> .hc
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>> On Aug 21, 2011, at 5:02 AM, Stephen Lavelle wrote:
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>>> Hi -
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>>> 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?
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>>> I've been tinkering around a little in the code myself,
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>>> https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-SKz32YaPs3U/TlBQKiAHtyI/AAAAAAAAAdk/_mjg3TRA-GE/Screen%2BShot%2B2011-08-21%2Bat%2B01.23.36.png
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>>> 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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