[PD] GUI plugin to replace open and save menu with GTK look and feel [WAS] 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]

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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> On Nov 25, 2010, at 6:27 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
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>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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>>> On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
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>>>>> (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).
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>>>> How would one go about doing this?
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>>> 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 :-)
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>> Lorenzo.
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>> [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.
Actually I was replacing the menu items. I see that in 0.43 these are in 
pd_menucommands.tcl but from the examples I have no clue how to replace 
that... Hints would be appreciated :)

Lorenzo
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