[PD] TkWidget library

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Wed Oct 31 20:15:29 CET 2007


The state query is a very good idea, feel like adding it to the wiki? :)

.hc

On Oct 31, 2007, at 8:26 AM, João Miguel Pais wrote:

> For the gui-edit patch that I made some time ago to work perfectly,  
> a "state query" command would be necessary. Then it would be  
> possible to send the properties of each element to pd, and do  
> whatever you want with it.
>
> How about also checking out if there would be any other alternative  
> to Tcl/Tk? It's still quite slow, and some not so uncomplicated  
> things (like a gui element in a gop) take lots of cpu for what they  
> give.
>
>
>> I've been working a bunch on GUIs recently, especially [entry], so I
>> decided to start a standard library: TkWidget.  There are already a
>> number of half-complete Tk-based GUI objects in Pd (entry, popup,
>> ticker, button, image), this library aims to be a direct port of the
>> Tk widgets to Pd, with all of the Tk options exposed in Pd so that
>> they are very flexible and configurable.
>>
>> I started a wiki page to start documenting ideas:
>>
>> http://puredata.info/dev/TkWidget
>>
>> Please add ideas, comments, etc and if you would like to help with
>> this, join in!  The next thing to for GUIs after this is to extend
>> tclpd so that you can write totally custom GUI objects completely in
>> Tcl/Tk.







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