[PD-dev] Status of GUI rewrite?

[Stephen Lavelle]

Okay.  If my clicking precision doesn't get better, this is how I'll try
going about it : )

Thanks -

S

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>wrote:

>
> On Aug 22, 2011, at 8:50 AM, 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.
>>
>> If I were to try make a patch, what do you think the appropriate place to
>> expose it?  It feels like it would sit well beside the font size options...
>>
>
>
> If you're modifying the C code, then I think the best approach would be to
> expose the settings in a way that people could change them via Tcl i.e. a
> GUI plugin.  Then people can play around with all sorts of behaviors. Its
> going to be the kind of thing where it'll be difficult to change the
> existing behavior because so many people expect it to work like that.  So it
> needs to be something customizable.
>
> .hc
>
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