[PD] UI developer volunteering to help

Mon May 19 20:37:56 CEST 2008

Oops, found a little bug:  double-clicking on an empty cell through  
up an error dialog.

Also, an idea: if you just draw that popup entry box just below the  
listbox with the OK button, add a Cancel button, then use "pack  
forget" when the user hits OK or Cancel.  Just a thought.  That mini- 
popup window is the only thing about these panels that is weird, I  
guess that why I still am thinking about how to ditch it.

.hc

On May 19, 2008, at 7:09 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

>
> Looks good to me.  This is already a massive improvement over what  
> is there.  I don't know if you are sick of working on it, but I  
> thought I'd throw a couple of minor ideas:
>
> - it would be useful if the "startup flags" entry widget would  
> stretch with the resizing window.  Then you could see more of those  
> flags.
>
> - perhaps the windows should open above the Pd window instead of  
> the center of the screen?  I think you can get that info using  
> [winfo rootx .] and [winfo rooty .]
>
> .hc
>
> On May 18, 2008, at 7:26 PM, David Golightly wrote:
>
>> As requested, I've put back the "Edit" and "Delete" buttons and  
>> added BackSpace as a Delete event for Mac OS X.  I couldn't get  
>> Cmd-BackSpace to fire effectively, but perhaps someone knows  
>> something I don't about getting that to work.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
>> <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>>
>> Very nice!  The mouse/keyboard interactive is well done, I only  
>> worry that the buttons are now too sparse.  I think delete and  
>> edit buttons would still be useful, maybe people don't use  
>> keyboard shortcuts at all.
>>
>> Also, on Mac OS X, Delete is not commonly used, so it would be  
>> good to also have BackSpace work for deleting.  Or maybe Cmd- 
>> BackSpace since that is what is used for deleting in the Finder.
>>
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On May 18, 2008, at 9:46 AM, David Golightly wrote:
>>
>>> A note on the latest changes: I removed all the list manipulation  
>>> buttons and added the following bindings:
>>>
>>> - The list items can be re-ordered by drag-and-drop.
>>> - Clicking on a list item allows you to edit it.
>>> - Clicking anywhere else in the listbox allows you to add a new  
>>> list item.
>>> - You can also traverse the list using up and down arrow keys,  
>>> then press "Enter" to change the selected item.
>>> - Press "Delete" to delete the currently selected list item.
>>>
>>> I kept around the "New..." button, since it may not be  
>>> immediately obvious to newbies how to add new things to the list.
>>>
>>> I also removed the "Save all settings" button and folded its  
>>> action in to the "Apply" command (and, by extension, the OK  
>>> command).  I played around with trying to get an in-place  
>>> editable listbox control for the Startup dialog, but to no avail  
>>> - it's apparently no trivial task in Tcl/Tk.  Perhaps for a  
>>> future revision.  However, the popup dialog functions effective  
>>> the same, as "Enter" will submit your edit and "Esc" will cancel;  
>>> once you get used to it it shouldn't be much different.
>>>
>>> I'm also now centering the dialog windows on the screen.  I'd  
>>> like to do this also (especially) for the "Properties" dialogs  
>>> that are used to edit GUI controls.  Tk like to try and "cascade"  
>>> new dialogs as they appear; this is too clever by half, and  
>>> really annoying once if you do a lot of editing.  But I've only  
>>> tested this centering behavior on my own Macbook 15" screen, so  
>>> it would be great if others could verify it's still usable on  
>>> other screen sizes.
>>>
>>> One other thing: these dialogs can now be resized, but they  
>>> appear at their minimum size, so you can't shrink them any  
>>> further (you can only expand them).
>>>
>>> Please let me know what you think and as always let me know if  
>>> you run into any trouble!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:06 PM, David Golightly  
>>> <davigoli at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Ok, with the path/startup dialogs, this is about the feature set  
>>> I'd like to end up with for now.  Please, everyone, review it for  
>>> usability & obvious bugs, and if it looks good I'll submit it as  
>>> a patch.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Steffen Juul <stffn at dibidut.dk>  
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 14/05/2008, at 0.16, marius schebella wrote:
>>>
>>> David Golightly wrote:
>>> Keep in mind I'm
>>> still learning Tcl/Tk, so some of these ideas, while excellent,  
>>> are a
>>> little beyond my technical grasp at this point and may be  
>>> improvements
>>> that we make incrementally over time.  Also, I have a limited  
>>> amount of
>>> my time to budget for this kind of work
>>>
>>> david,
>>> if you spend 1 hour on coding and one hour on documenting of how  
>>> to get
>>> to that step, (instead of 2 hours coding), then the chance that more
>>> people will be able to jump in is bigger. tcl/tk is new to most  
>>> people.
>>> being able to concentrate on design and ui aspects would make life
>>> easier. the hard part is to get started.
>>>
>>> Especially since the names in Tk are to my experience somewhat  
>>> different to what one put in the search bar, ie. of my/your(?)/ 
>>> normal vocabulary.
>>>
>>> Example: tabs ~= notebook. See http://wiki.tcl.tk/2298
>>>
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