[PD] How do you do this? GUI and GOP questions

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

For a selection list, you should check out Kryzstof Czaja's widgit and 
tow objects.  I think that Tcl/Tk has a GUI object that will meet your 
needs, and widgit/tow lets you use Tcl/Tk objects in pd.

http://suita.chopin.edu.pl/~czaja/miXed/externs/toys.html

.hc

On Tuesday, Jun 10, 2003, at 18:16 America/New_York, Matthew Allen 
wrote:

> So in the last 3 weeks or so I've been able to really sit and work on 
> trying
> to get a couple of my abstractions to the point where I could post 
> them.
>
> One of the things GUI wise I've been struggling with is how to 
> represent a
> list of symbols that the user can choose, a quick example would be 
> having a
> user choose between  7 lengths of a step sequncer (2 steps, 4 steps, 6
> steps, etc). I have been using hradio and vradio, but I need labels to
> appear on a GOP. My work around for this was to create Canvas objects 
> of
> unit tall and place them along the vradio:
>
> #N canvas 0 0 452 302 10;
> #X obj 153 110 vradio 15 1 0 4 empty empty empty 0 -6 0 8 -262144 -1
> -1 0;
> #X obj 153 125 cnv 15 60 1 empty empty 2_step 20 -8 0 8 -1 -1 0;
> #X obj 153 140 cnv 15 60 1 empty empty 4_step 20 -8 0 8 -1 -1 0;
> #X obj 153 155 cnv 15 60 1 empty empty 6_step 20 -8 0 8 -1 -1 0;
> #X obj 153 170 cnv 1 60 1 empty empty 8_step 20 -8 0 8 -1 -1 0;
>
> What do other people do to label H and Vradios for GOP's?
>
> This is fine for small lists, but really large ones (say 16 or 
> greater) this
> becomes unmanageable. And as a more general question how do people 
> deal with
> letting a user select a long list of symbols? I have a step sequencer 
> I have
> been building and adding to for a while, that lets me select from 4 
> banks
> (labelled A-D) of 16 patterns. For doing things like morphing from one
> patern to another or other weird stuff I would really like to be able 
> to
> have the user select A12 and D8 as opposed to 12 and 56 which will 
> certainly
> confuse the new user.
>
> thanks
> m.
>
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