[PD] UI developer volunteering to help

[David Golightly]

Well scratch that then, perhaps that will only work when you're building pd
on your own machine.  If you launch Pd from Terminal, you might see error
output in that terminal window - that would be helpful to have.

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 3:17 PM, marius schebella <
marius.schebella at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>>
>>
>>
>>    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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