[PD] hide/show controls at runtime

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I like the idea of morphing, here's a quick test of the idea:


I wonder if we could include such functionality in a library of GUI  
objects which can dynamically hide and reshape themselves...

.hc


On Apr 18, 2006, at 2:50 AM, alexandre matheson wrote:

> On closer inspection is isn't that difficult at all to store the  
> previous states. See updated patch.
> <guithing.pd>
>
> On 17-Apr-06, at 8:42 PM, alexandre matheson wrote:
>
>>
>> On 17-Apr-06, at 7:59 PM, derek holzer wrote:
>>
>>> Roman Haefeli wrote:
>>>> i just checked the code: it seems like changing the page moves  
>>>> some gui-objs out of the gop-window and others into the window  
>>>> with [pos X Y(-messages.
>>>
>>> Send messages to resize your GUI objects to/from 0 width or 0  
>>> height. They effectively "don't exist" if they are zero pixels  
>>> high or wide (although they still use some CPU resources). You  
>>> could even do it with [line], so that they seem to fade out or  
>>> drop down.
>>
>> I tried this and it refused to resize below 2 by 8 on a hslider  
>> which is too bad cause using line to make it morph is a really  
>> cool idea.
>>
>> Maybe you could reuse the same gui objects for different  
>> parameters by changing the send (see attached patch). The big  
>> problem with this is storing the settings and having them recalled  
>> when you move from one parameter to another.
>> <guithing.pd>
>>
>>>
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