[PD] stupid GUI tricks

[Phil Stone]

Care to let me in on the secret?  I was messing with it at lunch, and 
couldn't for the life of me figure out how to change the background 
color of an object.


Phil

Dafydd Hughes wrote:
> Forget it. I was indeed missing what was right in front of me.
>
> Dafydd Hughes wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>>
>>> ++
>>>
>>>
>>> J?
>>>
>>> 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 ?crit :
>>>       
>>>> 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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