[PD] console focus after soundfiler load

Patrice Colet megalegoland at yahoo.fr
Sat Jul 14 00:12:53 CEST 2007


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Patrice Colet a écrit :
> Hello,
>  it is not only happen under linux, but I don't know about osx.
> Let me propose a hack for replacing the cheesy [openpanel],
> it's a .wav file browser I've extracted specially for you from a large 
> project I'm working on. Please let me know if you have errors, or 
> suggestions, I might improve it for opening other kind of files,
> and make a tkinter version with pyext (it will display in -nogui mode).
> 
> 
> 
> Kevin McCoy a écrit :
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would like to make a small request for pd for linux, but I wanted to
>> post to the list before putting it on the tracker as a bug or feature
>> request - could it be made so that when you load a sample with
>> soundfiler, the console window does not get the focus after loading
>> the file?  This is no small irritation when loading multiple samples,
>> and if one is not running in verbose mode, there's not even any useful
>> information provided by the console.
>>
>> I am running ubuntu studio 7.04 with gnome/fluxbox.  I know that the
>> only message that comes back from a soundfiler load in verbose is that
>> it was successful.  Other messages, however, don't cause the console
>> to get focus - they simply appear in the terminal in the background.
>> Is there a workaround for this, or can it be addressed in the code?
>> Was it done on purpose, perhaps?
>>
>> I have tested this with 39-2 extended and Miller's 0.40-2, but perhaps
>> the request could apply for all versions of pd on linux.  This never
>> seemed to be an issue on OS X when I was using that.  I personally
>> don't think the console should ever be forced to the front of the
>> screen after startup, but should rather run quietly in the background,
>> available for reference when it is called upon.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> k
>>
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