[PD] GUI to control [gemwin]

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Apr 2, 2006, at 10:22 AM, B. Bogart wrote:

> Hey Hans,
>
> Why not contribute your changes to the pixelTANGO gemwin GUI.  
> pt.window?

I will, once sf.net CVS is back, and I can run your updated version  
of pT.

> What kind of "status" are you talking about since, like most things in
> pd, the only way to know the status is to set it.

Just the current value of the various settings (lighting, fullscreen,  
frame, create/destroy, rendering, etc.).  Since multiple [gemwin]  
objects can point to the same window, it makes sense to have a  
querying interface so that a new patch can query the gemwin to get  
its status.

> The main improvement I wanted to make was to add a popup for the
> fullscreen functionality, since you now specify "fullscreen 0",
> "fullscreen 1" (first screen) and "fullscreen 2"  (second screen)
>
> Also I was going to add stuff for the "dimen" message and add more
> resolutions to the popup list.
>
> Things like fps and profiling just use up cycles, so I don't think it
> makes sense to be a constant thing, maybe just a message that outputs
> the current fps once.

Yeah, I am not thinking of profiling.  Really, it should be the exact  
same info you get when you send [print( to [gemwin], but in Pd-space.

> PS: is there a scanf type external that does the opposite of  
> makefilename:
>
> [symbol 640x480<
>  |
> [makeatom %dx%d]
>
> gives:
>
> 640 480
>
> prints either a list of all the atoms, or all the atoms out seperate
> outlets?

That would be nice.  Carmen proposed a POSIX lib for Pd, that would  
definitely be part of it.  There could also be a more "Pd-ish" scanf.

.hc


>
>
> .b.
> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>> I made a GUI object to control the [gemwin] object that also displays
>> its status.  When a new instance is created, it queries existing
>> instances to get the status.  That way all instances will show  
>> the  same
>> status.  I am planning on using this in the intro to Gem
>> tutorial/workshop that I am currently working on.  So feedback  
>> would  be
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Is there any way to query [gemwin] directly?
>>
>>
>> .hc
>>
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