[PD] customizing the new Pd GUI, some examples

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Wed Sep 2 00:55:40 CEST 2009


Dialog menus aren't pd patches yet, lots of work needs to be done for  
that to happen.  But you can to abstraction properties thing with  
iemguts, I hear.

.hc

On Sep 1, 2009, at 5:53 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

> Hm, so would the new GUI magick also make it possible for the dialogue
> menus to actually be Pd patches?  I guess its not a lot of gain for  
> the
> work in terms of existing iem-gui objects, but it would be really  
> useful
> to be able to build a "Properties" menu for abstractions that can  
> change
> the arguments of the abstraction.
>
> Or can you already do this with iem-guts?
>
> -Jonathan
>
> --- On Tue, 9/1/09, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>
>> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>> Subject: Re: [PD] customizing the new Pd GUI, some examples
>> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: "András Murányi" <muranyia at gmail.com>, pd-list at iem.at
>> Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 4:10 PM
>>
>> Trippy.  Even the xlets
>> disappear!
>> There are now a set of Tk tags that can be
>> separately controlled, you could also make things turn
>> different colors, or disappear (i.e. turn
>> white).
>> cords, inlet, outlet, text, label, obj, msg,
>> atom
>> Are segmented patch cords also a
>> possibility now?
>>
>> Someone should try to write a segmented patch
>> cord plugin, that would be a great test of the plugin idea
>> for the new GUI.  I'd be happy to help someone thru
>> the code, and make any reasonable changes.  I suspect
>> it'll be hard to work around the fact that the .pd file
>> format doesn't include a place to store the segmented
>> patch cord data points, but I think it could easily be
>> handled in a separate, parallel file.  It could be like
>> the .pd is the HTML and this other file is the
>> CSS.
>> .hc
>> On Sep 1, 2009, at 12:45 AM, Jonathan Wilkes
>> wrote:
>> Trippy.  Even the xlets
>> disappear!
>> Are segmented patch cords also a possibility now?
>>
>> -Jonathan
>>
>> --- On Tue, 9/1/09, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>> wrote:
>>
>> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>> Subject: Re: [PD] customizing the new Pd GUI, some
>> examples
>> To: "András Murányi" <muranyia at gmail.com>
>> Cc: pd-list at iem.at
>> Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 5:06 AM
>>
>>
>> I just made a commit to make this possible.
>>  Check how "hide_cords.tcl" and
>> "editmode_look.tcl" in pd-gui-rewrite.  They
>> are both in pd/startup/disabled, so you'll need to move
>> them to pd/startup to make them load.  They are both
>> triggered by edit mode.
>> <Picture
>> 1.png><Picture
>> 2.png><Picture
>> 3.png>
>> .hc
>> On Aug 28, 2009, at 3:48 PM, András Murányi
>> wrote:
>> I
>> wish to hide connections... oh my!
>> I would be happy with a single global option to hide'em
>> in performance mode (ctrl-e).
>>
>> Does it make sense?
>>
>> -- 
>> Muranyi Andras
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