[PD] UI developer volunteering to help

[marius schebella]

I tried this with pd extended 0.40-3, but did not get a startup pref 
window at all and the path window was very small and empty. (os x, 10.5.)
marius.

David Golightly wrote:
> And, here's a version with an updated Startup dialog.  Simply copy this 
> to bin/pd.tk <http://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 
> <mailto:davigoli at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> 
>     On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Steffen Juul <stffn at dibidut.dk
>     <mailto:stffn at dibidut.dk>> wrote:
> 
> 
>         On 10/05/2008, at 19.48, David Golightly wrote:
> 
>             Ok, after a busy week this is what I've been able to come up
>             with for the Path dialog.
> 
> 
>         Looking really good! The browse functionality is a fair idiom in
>         a such GUI as oppose to entering text, i think.
> 
> 
>     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.
>      
> 
> 
>         "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?
> 
> 
>     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".
>      
> 
> 
> 
>             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.
> 
> 
>         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?
> 
> 
>     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").
>      
> 
> 
> 
>             So far I've only tested this on Mac OS X
> 
> 
>         OS X.4 here.
> 
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