[PD] buttonbar GUI plugin

João Pais jmmmpais at googlemail.com
Sat Dec 4 15:04:18 CET 2010


this only works with pd >= .43, right?

>
> On Dec 3, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Jack wrote:
>
>> 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) ?
>
> That would not be hard to do.  Basically just create a 'toplevel'  
> window, and arrange the buttons that I made for the toolbar in that  
> toplevel window.  The plugin could also add key bindings and items in  
> the Window menu, or wherever appropriate.  I'm happy to give pointers to  
> anyone who wants to take this on.
>
> .hc
>
>
>> ++
>>
>> Jack
>>
>>
>>>
>>> .hc
>>>
>>>
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