[PD] buttonbar GUI plugin

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Yes, this is all 0.43 stuff, because of the new pd-gui.

.hc

On Dec 4, 2010, at 9:04 AM, João Pais wrote:

> 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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