[PD] Pd standalone instruments ...

[moritz]

IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>>  >
>>  >> what might be a good idea though, would be a king of "kiosk" 
>> mode, where
>>  >> the pd-main window is not present and where there are no menus at 
>> all
>>  >> (so you would have to control pd via messages).
>>  >
>>  > I think menus could stay.  Menus are ubiquitous.  But it seems the
>>  > only need for a Pd-window is debugging, or of course analysis and
>>  > such; there are times when it's needed, but there are times it isn't.
>>
>> on my side, i (and my non-freaky composers) had never a problem with 
>> the additional main-window.
>> the menus however, are really there for handling pd (the framework) 
>> and NOT your application (patch).
>> if there is NO menu, you can build your custom one (either with 
>> special widgets like [popup] or with normal [bng]s.
>
> i have committed a patch to the current CVS-pd which implements such a 
> kiosk mode as i like it:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1529010&group_id=55736&atid=478072 
>
>
> it does:
> disable the main window
> disable menus in the patch-windows
> disable keyboard shortcuts (like Ctrl-q or Ctrl-s)
> write to stdout
>
> to enable this feature, start pd with "-kiosk" and don't forget to 
> tell pd which file it should load (as you have no more chance to open 
> it without any window)
>
> caveats:
>  - no way to open another patch (no Ctrl-o)
>  - when the last window is closed, pd keeps on running (kill it with 
> Ctrl-C on the shell)
>
> most changes are really in u_main.tk (aka pd.tk); the only changes in 
> the 2 .c-files are there for parsing the new flag and enabling 
> kiosk-mode.
> people who want to try it out without having to recompile pd, can edit 
> line 35 of u_main.tk, to set "pd_kiosk" to 1. (and copy the new 
> u_main.tk to bin/pd.tk)
>
>
>
>
> mfg.adsr.
> IOhannes
>
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ola,
is it possible only disabling menus in the patch-window?
but the shortcuts would work and the menu in pd-main would exist.
because it would economize  my screen-place..
which code should i change in pd.tk?


thanx

moritZ