[PD] zenity plugin for Pd 0.43 WAS: magicglass WAS: call for testers for L2Ork iteration of pd-extended (based on 0.42.x branch)

[Lorenzo Sutton]

[this was intended for the list by I sent it to Hans only by mistake - 
resending]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: zenity plugin for Pd 0.43 WAS: magicglass WAS: call for testers 
for L2Ork iteration of pd-extended (based on 0.42.x branch)
From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
To: Lorenzo Sutton <lsutton at libero.it>
CC: pd-list at iem.at
Date: 11/28/2010 02:00 AM
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> On Nov 25, 2010, at 6:27 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
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>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>
>>> On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> (and a random aside, perhaps you'd be interested in getting Pd to use
>>>>> the GTK open panel?  I've always hated the Tcl/Tk one).
>>>>
>>>> How would one go about doing this?
>>>
>>> I believe that gnocl is the thing that you are looking for:
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>>> http://wiki.tcl.tk/5151
>> Actually a really 'quick and dirty' solution would be to call zenity 
>> [1] from within the tk.. Which IMHO is better than the Tk file 
>> opener.. Attached a version of pd.tk (0.42.5-extended-rc5 linux) 
>> which will try touse zenity for open, falling back to Tk if zeniy is 
>> not found (sorry my tcl is really really rusty :-)
>>
>> Lorenzo.
>>
>> [1]: http://freshmeat.net/projects/zenity
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> That would make a great GUI plugin for Pd 0.43.  Basically the plugin 
> would just override pdtk_openpanel and pdtk_savepanel (now in 
> pd/tcl/wheredoesthisgo.tcl).  Just 'rename' the existing ones in your 
> plugin, then create your own procs with the same names.
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> .hc
The GUI plugin thing in 0.43 is pretty new to me.. Anything I can read 
to learn about it?

This apporach (that's why 'quick and dirty') does have various 
limitations that I think couldn't be solved:
- No way to have 'filetype' filters (I haven't seen a way to have ore 
than one with zenity)
- Doesn't remember last opened directory (but maybe taht could be 
handled by the tk script)
- Not exactly the 'standard' gnome open dialogue.

Of course one could create two small independent gtk+ (or whatever gui) 
apps (executables) that let you select file in a "natve" look and feel 
spit a string out a string like zenity which is easily ingested y tk. 
I'm not sure how this could be made cross platform though.

Lorenzo.
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