[PD] UI developer volunteering to help

[David Golightly]

And, here's a version with an updated Startup dialog.  Simply copy this to
bin/pd.tk (make a backup first!) to try it out.


On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:48 PM, David Golightly <davigoli at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Steffen Juul <stffn at dibidut.dk> wrote:
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>> On 10/05/2008, at 19.48, David Golightly wrote:
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>>  Ok, after a busy week this is what I've been able to come up with for the
>>> Path dialog.
>>>
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>> Looking really good! The browse functionality is a fair idiom in a such
>> GUI as oppose to entering text, i think.
>>
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> Thanks!  I've often been kind of frustrated that I have to type in the full
> directory name rather than simply browsing to it.  For the
> keyboard-inclined, however, text entry should still be possible.
>
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>>
>> "One" comment: I have a beef with the functionality of the buttons. Not
>> the Cancel one. The others. 'Apply' does something. 'Ok' does 'apply' plus
>> 'cancel'. 'Save...' does 'Apply' plus saves. But it says the list is only
>> gonna work from next time Pd is lunched, why i don't get the 'Apply' and
>> 'Ok'. 'Ok' should do save and cancel. Thats all one wants, anit?
>>
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> I agree.  I've preserved the pre-existing functionality for those buttons
> from before, but do we really need both "Save" and "Apply"?  Currently,
> "Save" also "saves preferences" (verbose & use standard extensions).  I
> think that should also happen when you click "Apply", so we can do away with
> the "Save" button, and also make sure that the message about needing to
> restart PD pops up when you click "OK" or "Apply".
>
>
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>>  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.
>>>
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>> I haven't checked your code but i suppose most "proc's" can be reused?
>>
>>  I've set up some various key bindings so I want to make sure it seems
>>> usable for everyone.
>>>
>>
>> Nice. What are they?
>>
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> Default key bindings for the listbox widget give you "up" and "down" keys
> to select, I've added "Delete" to delete the current selection, and "Return"
> to open the browse dialog (same as pressing "Edit").
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>>  So far I've only tested this on Mac OS X
>>>
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>> OS X.4 here.
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