[PD] stupid GUI tricks

[Dafydd Hughes]

Hey Hans

I'm _dying_to try this, but can't figure out how to access it. Are there 
new commands for the themer patch? Or am I (like usual) just missing 
what's right in front of me?

cheers
dafydd

Jerome Tuncer wrote:
> In my opinion, this is not _stupid_ GUI tricks at all...
> 
> Being asked on the differences between Pd and Max/MSP, how many times 
> have I answered starting with "The GUI in pd isn't really as cool and 
> smart as it is in Max/MSP but the DSP capabilities are in the end very 
> similar".
> 
> My answer to the lack of GUI elegance is very often a salad of 
> overlaying [cnv]'s to make patches look more attractive and thus very 
> often more readable.
> 
> This kind of effort is not stupid, it is great GUI improvement in my 
> opinion.
> 
> ++
> 
> 
> Jé
> 
> Another off-thread thing : I'm really looking forward to the day pd will 
> not suffer that much from its GUI implementation : simple slider or 
> table visualization/monitoring sometimes being the main reason for a 
> ultra complex DSP patch to bo so heavy on the computer/resources ! (-:
> 
> Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
>> Ok, all this Tcl/Tk has started to rot my brain, so here are some  
>> stupid GUI tricks:
>>
>> http://eds.org/~hans/pdsketch/stupidguitricks.png
>>
>> - change patch background colors in a patch!
>> - make your patches transparent!
>> - use lots of Tcl/Tk config options!
>>
>> Works on my machine :D and hopefully tomorrow's auto-builds...
>>
>> http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/2007-11-08/
>>
>> (if that link does work, it's not there yet)
>>
>> .hc
>>
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