[PD] pd-gui-rewrite preferences

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 22, 2010, at 1:12 PM, András Murányi wrote:

> Rich E wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I was just thinking, as I noticed that Hans made it where Apple+,  
> opens the
> > preferences menu on OS X (as does every other native-mac app), why  
> not group
> > all the preferences in one dialog, with sub dialogs?  This is how  
> other apps
> > I use on OS X behave and I find it convenient.  Besides, if you  
> save the
> > settings, all of the settings get dumped to the preferences file,  
> no?  Why
> > not have them all in the same dialog, openable by a hotkey.
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:14 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>
> The only reason its not like that is because someone hasn't done the
> work.  I'd love to be able to include that work in pd-gui-rewrite.  Be
> aware, it'll probably require some weirdness, because of the nature of
> the messages that the pref panels send to 'pd'.  But I don't think it
> would be too hard.
>
> One downside is that it you couldn't use Tcl/Tk 8.5 if you want it  
> to be
> included in Pd-vanilla.  But I am planning on switching Pd-extended  
> 0.43
> to Tcl/Tk 8.5 and above, since 8.5 adds a lot of very useful GUI  
> stuff.
>
> .hc
>
>
> Let me think a bit forward on this... when you say a dialog and sub  
> dialogs, do you mean a dialog with multiple tabs (that is what i see  
> to be popular in practice) or literally many modals available from  
> one central modal?
> I'd say tabs make the most sense, but i see that some of the dialogs  
> are produced by the C
> side not Tcl/Tk (are they?) in which case it will not be easy to  
> stuff them into the tabs.
> I'm asking because i would be willing to code this up.


In 0.43, the prefs dialogs are split out into separate Tcl files:
dialog_audio.tcl
dialog_midi.tcl
dialog_path.tcl
dialog_startup.tcl

I think each in its own tab makes a lot of sense.

.hc


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