[PD] UI developer volunteering to help

[David Golightly]

Ok, after a busy week this is what I've been able to come up with for the
Path dialog.  I'm thinking about adapting this UI for the Startup dialog -
shouldn't be hard to do - except instead of choosing directories you want to
enter arbitrary text.  Still, have a look and let me know what you think -
I've set up some various key bindings so I want to make sure it seems usable
for everyone.  So far I've only tested this on Mac OS X, so feedback on
other platforms would be nice.  I'll probably get a Windows build at some
point as well.

-David



On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:

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> On May 8, 2008, at 9:18 PM, Steffen Juul wrote:
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>> On 03/05/2008, at 20.06, David Golightly wrote:
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>>> So, I'm interested in starting with fixing some of the messy dialogs,
>>> then working toward getting a mouse-less edit mode.
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>> That sounds great. I especially like your focus on editing objects prefs.
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>> For the path/lib pref panel, the attached is what i got at when i stalled.
>> - It's super messy and only trying to sketch an idea on how to actually do
>> it while learning tcl/tk and getting into Pd src. This sketching need no
>> edits to Pd source code but tries to black-box test first. Depending on the
>> actual implementation one might need to patch s_path.c, hence recompile Pd
>> to do a full test (as opposed to just swap main.tk). IOhannes recently
>> got a patch for adding more path/libs into Vanilla that gives more then 10
>> variables to work with in the Tcl side of Pd. A better fix would be to use
>> another format (not assumed in my test) then pd_path0, pd_path1, ...,
>> pd_pathN - like a 'pd_path' array.
>>
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> This test looks like a great start.  If it could have in-place editing and
> the ability to change the order, it would be perfect!
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> The path/startup stuff should already be in place for this to plug into,
> thanks to IOhannes' patch.
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