[PD] ANN: pd-l2ork v.20120304 and new disis_wiimote external now available

[Jonathan Wilkes]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> To: Ivica Ico Bukvic <ico at vt.edu>
> Cc: pd-list at iem.at
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 11:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [PD] ANN: pd-l2ork v.20120304 and new disis_wiimote external now available
> 
> Le 2012-03-06 à 00:42:00, Ivica Ico Bukvic a écrit :
> 
>>  Font based zooming simply changes font sizes and repositions all objects to 
> be still in the same relation to each other. True zooming (ala desiredata), 
> while desireable (no pun intended)
> 
> Well, in desiredata, puns were intended. The name was made from
> desiderata, a latin word to allude to todo-lists and wish-lists.
> 
>>  is at this point IMO too much work for too little gain.
> 
> Curiously, I would have said exactly that about your fontsize thing. I would say 
> that true zooming is the only way to go, and anything else distracts by creating 
> bigger complications.

I don't agree.  The pd-extended/vanilla font dialog is good for choosing an initial 
font size, and _nearly_ useless for changing font sizes.  Pd-l2ork font dialog 
is good for choosing an initial font size, perfectly fine for changing font sizes when 
normal text objects are all that is in the patch, somewhat useful for changing font 
size in a patch mixed with text objects and iemguis, and only completely useless
when changing font size for a patch in which only iemguis are visible.

This isn't just theoretical.  I wanted to read a help patch in a larger font, and on 
pd-l2ork I just increased the font size and stretched the patch window to be 
bigger.  On pd-extended/vanilla the text objects would have collided with a bigger 
font and would have been illegible.

-Jonathan

> 
>>  we really need 2 instances. One that is based essentially off of libpd and 
> another that is a robust editor with none of the convoluted client server model 
> between the editor and the engine itself that has made improving on the code so 
> cumbersome…
> 
> You want to replace the current client-server model by what exactly ? Most 
> likely another kind of client-server model ?
> 
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