[PD] pd-gui-rewrite preferences

Rich E rich.eakin at gmail.com
Sat Jan 23 08:31:34 CET 2010


Well, I wanted to take this on if others thought it was a good idea, but my
laptop was just stolen from my flat (brand new Macbook Pro!).. arg.
 Hopefully I can scrape together a linux pc or something soon.  If so, I´ll
chime back in on this thread for suggestions.

rich

2010/1/22 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>

>
> 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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