[PD] pd 0.39 - window behaviour

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Thu Apr 20 20:43:46 CEST 2006


The only time I can see that the "Close Window" prompt would be  
useful is during a performance, when you really don't want to  
accidentally close a running window.  I think the solution is to have  
a preference to enable the "Close Window" prompt and have it default  
to off.

.hc

On Apr 20, 2006, at 11:11 AM, Max Neupert wrote:

> i think this is known too but nevertheless once more:
>
> if one has a empty patch open with zero information pd asks questions.
> but if there is an unsaved patch and clicks on the close window  
> icon of the pd-window pd closes the unsaved patch without questions.
>
> m.
>
>
> Am 19.04.2006 um 19:31 schrieb Mathieu Bouchard:
>
>> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, oliver wrote:
>>
>>> i wanted to join the party complaining about the new behaviour of
>>> prompting the user to save his/her work in PD 0.39. for me this is
>>> definitely a step in the wrong direction though i can uinderstand  
>>> the
>>> pros.
>>
>> Particularly infuriating is the "Close this window??" dialog with the
>> nervous double question mark?? and which happens on *every*  
>> window, *even*
>> a fresh empty one. Excitingly, this dialog box is not defined in
>> lib/pd/bin/pd.tk, so you can't change this in a precompiled pd,  
>> because
>> you have to edit C code and then recompile.
>>
>> I agree that sometimes one may want to have this feature, especially
>> because most keyboards have Ctrl+E and Ctrl+W really close to each  
>> other,
>> so people with big fingers are at a disadvantage here. But really, it
>> should be an option.
>>
>>> say MAX, is that editing can be done so fast and fluent.
>>
>> you might mean "fluid" here.
>>
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