[PD-dev] Pd-extended EOL?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

There is lot more than just box color in the Pd-extended look-n-feel.  There are mouse icons, fonts, consistent sizing, differentiation of inlet/outlet types, etc.

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On Nov 9, 2015, at 8:09 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

> You can't, because the relevant canvas item options are hard-coded in C (e.g., object box outline color, xlet outline and fill color, etc.).
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> On Monday, November 9, 2015 1:13 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Also, I wonder if the “look and feel” aspects of extended could be applied via a plugin? 
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>> On Nov 9, 2015, at 11:10 AM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Right. The gui rewrite was a huge part of extended that was incorporated into vanilla. Obviously the plugin mechanism makes deken possible!
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> I’d like to find a way to bring in the consistent font sizing in as well as the help patches Jonathan updated. Maybe worth bringing up again? There is a lot of good work that shouldn’t be lost with the transition, if possible.
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>> On Nov 9, 2015, at 6:49 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
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>> Moving towards deken definitely makes sense.  
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>> FYI, for anyone interested, it would not be hard to do a Pd-extended update if it is just a matter of updating the libraries.
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>> I think the future of my work on something like Pd-extended would be to make a new standard library that covers lots of stuff.  That was really the original idea of Pd-extended, funny enough.
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>> On Oct 2, 2015, at 8:47 PM, Dan Wilcox wrote:
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> Yeah, that’s what I mean. Basically so people will stop downloading an out of date extended if there is an easy way to get the same/similar functionality from a much newer version of vanilla+externals. Judging from the continued extended bug reports of things which are generally fixed in vanilla, I’m thinking it would be a good idea to see what’s needed for a transition and start that more formal conversation.
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>> On Oct 1, 2015, at 4:00 AM, pd-dev-request at lists.iem.at wrote:
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>> If by 'relative parity' you mean availability of all the externals the
>> last version of Pd-extended came with, this might have been reached
>> already. Search for 'extended' in deken. It shows a lot of (all?)
>> externals directly packaged from Pd-extended. Many thanks to IOhannes
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