[PD] puredata_gui_design

[errordeveloper at gmail.com]

Hello Jordi,

sure, i will have a look at it later, see what i need to do to package it :)

i am supposed to quite a few things this weekend, so please remind me
next week if i still didn't post it.

cheers,
-- 
Ilya D.

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 02:17:51PM +0200, Jordi Sala wrote:
> Hi, I'm very interested to try you gui!! it seems very interesting and useful!!
> 
> On 17 April 2010 12:29,  <errordeveloper at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have made a little plugin widget for QTdesigner (well, you really
> > wanna use QTcreator IDE) that connects to pd via a TCP socket and you
> > can specify the hostname ..
> > you can add sliders and buttons and whatever and it all works quite
> > fine.
> > there's very little to the code, in fact it's damn minimal, so i reckon
> > the v0.1 is pretty much bugfree..
> > i haven't yet sorted any hosting ..neither i wrote a README,
> > but if anyone is interested i'm post it here.
> >
> > i have attached a screenshot of one layout that i made with it ..
> >
> > there a few limitations ..ATM i hope i will manage to overcome those by
> > incorporating OpenGL widgets ..))
> > also one main thing now to is configure QT-embedded to work with
> > DirectFB, then i'd make some more widgets ..
> > well ..SVG could be nice, but i haven't yet figure how to do it in QT in
> > nice a streight forward way.
> > but there some really nice svg widget example on the Nokia's website :)
> >
> > anyone interested to try my 'qpd' please drop a line,
> > i'll need to install qt4 with qtcreator ..i'm not sure about all the
> > dependencies qt4-devel and stuff like that is probably required,
> > nothing else major appart form that.
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 03:19:50PM +0200, colet.patrice at free.fr wrote:
> >>
> >> segmented and curvy cords comes with another patching design,
> >>  like in maxMSP where almost all the time the messages order doesn't have an importance.
> >>
> >>  Also it's said by some users that max patches works better when everything is in the same subpatch,
> >> and that is not the case with pd.
> >>
> >>  Many other has explained, certainly better than me, why not using those cords in list archive.
> >>
> >>  Also, the project of designing other interfaces for pd is really seducting,
> >>  and there is already some projects that allow the use of another GUI, like
> >>
> >> the J. Sarlo's Graphical Interface Editing Tool and Run-time Environment (cpu glouton)
> >> or
> >> T. Grill's python wrapper and tkinter. (require python knowledge)
> >> or
> >> HC's [sys_gui]  (require tcl knowledge, and very slow response)
> >> or
> >> [mixed/toxy/tot] (unstable, require tcl knowledge)
> >> and
> >> xi widgets that require tcl/tk 8.5, a working [widget] external, and half a dozen of tk libs.
> >>
> >>  There are also other projects using pd sources with another GUI design like desiredata
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Mail Original -----
> >> De: "Lorenzo" <lsutton at libero.it>
> >> À: pd-list at iem.at
> >> Envoyé: Vendredi 16 Avril 2010 12h07:08 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / Rome / Stockholm / Vienne
> >> Objet: Re: [PD] puredata_gui_design
> >>
> >>
> >> András Murányi wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> One (hard) aspect of GUI design in case of Pd is that the GUI widgets are provided by Tcl/Tk at the moment, which does not allow for such kind of skinning, afaik. There has been talk, however, about migrating to another GUI toolkit.
> >> Really? Which one?
> >>
> >> As a comment on the designs which graphically look very cool... this will probably be unpopular... but I *wouldn't* second segmented or curvy chords (like in some other popular dataflow programs) as I think they tend to make patches (and one's coding) less clear and in the end a bit "messy".. but it may be me, as I do tend to become messy and like something which constraints me not to :)
> >>
> >> Lorenzo
> >>
> >>
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