[PD] pd-gui-rewrite preferences

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Wow, that sucks!  Good luck with the new computer!

.hc

On Jan 23, 2010, at 2:31 AM, Rich E wrote:

> 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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