[PD-dev] dialog start locations

[Dan Wilcox]

Also, I know Johnathan did a unification of dialogs into a notebook previously, so I can attempt to resurrect that for Vanilla.

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Dan Wilcox
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> On May 16, 2016, at 5:14 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I think the Tk 8.5 ttk::Notebook would work well. I've been nailing a lot of small things for Tk 8.5+ on OSX, so I'm feeling confident about being able to drop the Tk 8.4 requirement and possibly jumping to 8.6. I have test version of Pd running both 8.5.19 & 8.6.5.
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> On May 16, 2016, at 11:06 AM, Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu> wrote:
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>> I don't know what's the best general approach to this :)
>> 
>> OTOH, another thing...  I want to add a bunch of 'preferences' at
>> some point (default zoom, compatibilty level, who-knows-what-all) and
>> there isn't a just-plain 'preferences' dialog to put that all in.  What
>> would be better:
>> 
>> 1. add a fifth dialog, 'general preferences' alongside 'path' and the rest
>> 
>> 2. move to a single tabbed preferences dialog
>> 
>> ?
>> cheers
>> Miller
>> 
>> On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 05:21:18PM -0600, Dan Wilcox wrote:
>>> I’ve been fixing a number of UI related bugs for Mac in TK 8.5/8.6 and have a quick question.
>>> 
>>> Should the preferences dialogs (Audio settings, Midi settings, Path, Startup) open relative to the Pd window?
>>> 
>>> In Tk 8.4, they automatically open on top of the main Pd window with a slight offset. In Tk 8.5, they do not but I’m able to replicate by setting the window geometry offset relative to the Pd window’s current position.
>>> 
>>> This is similar to the other bugs I’ve fixed where it seems the Tk Cocoa layer requires explicit settings, such as windows needing to be raised/lowered relative to a second window otherwise they lower behind *all other windows, including those from other applications*.
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