[PD] buttonbar GUI plugin

Jack jack at rybn.org
Fri Dec 3 17:21:10 CET 2010


Le vendredi 03 décembre 2010 à 10:28 -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner a
écrit :
> On Dec 3, 2010, at 8:45 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 3 Dec 2010, Chris McCormick wrote:
> >
> >> Whoa, this is way cool! Do these plugins work in Vanilla Pd 0.43?  
> >> How do I install it?
> >
> > After I developed Pd's original buttonbar, I realised that it's not  
> > particularly useful. Keyboard shortcuts are a lot more useful. The  
> > buttonbar is bit more comfortable if it supports drag-n-drop. This  
> > is something I haven't implemented, and Hans hasn't implemented  
> > either.
> >
> > However, Hans implemented auto-hide. (Instead, I had an editmode  
> > toggle in the bar)
> >
> > I wonder what the auto-hide thing means in terms of how big patch  
> > windows are when they open.
> 
> 
> Funny, I started out doing it to test the idea of hiding/showing  
> something based on editmode, but then it grew into a life of its own.   
> Right now, I find the behavior a little annoying, the canvas stays the  
> same size, and the buttonbar is inserted at the top, so it moves the  
> canvas down.  I think it would work better to have the button bar show  
> up at the bottom if its going to expand the window size.  Or the other  
> option is that it covers part of the canvas and the window stays the  
> same size, but that I think would be harder to implement since Pd  
> wants to control the size of the canvas.
> 
> Another thing I think should be possible as a plugin is to have a  
> right-click menu bar of those buttons.

And an other small window à la The Gimp (window toobox) ?
++

Jack


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