[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)

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 9, 2010, at 10:25 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 25, 2010, at 6:27 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
>>
>>> 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:
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>
>>
>> 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 :)

You can see lots of example plugins in SVN here so you can either  
browse via the web or "svn checkout" this URL:
https://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pure-data/trunk/scripts/guiplugins

So something like:

rename pdtk_openpanel pdtk_openpanel_original
proc pdtk_openpanel {target localdir} {
# my own custom open panel code
}

You can see this in these two plugins:
simple_examples/font_doesnt_follow_focus-plugin.tcl
simple_examples/pdwindow_popup_mode-plugin.tcl

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