[PD] gui elements documentation / list

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On 01/24/2013 05:11 PM, me.grimm wrote:
>> You need to specify the point or pixel size as part of the font:
>> $tkcanvas itemconfigure text -fill red -font {Helvetica 16}  ;# points
>> $tkcanvas itemconfigure text -fill red -font {Helvetica -16}  ;# negative
> is
>> pixels
> 
> ah thats helpful thank you!
> 
> it might be too much but how about turning on/off gui-plugins directly from
> a patch by sending messages to pd?
> 
> also i did something like:
> 
>  proc RandomInteger1 {max} {
>          return [expr {int(rand()*$max) + 1}]
>  }
> 
> to randomize font size etc. right now when i open my patch i have to click
> on and off the patch to refresh.... is there just a refresh pd command i
> can send so i count refresh with a metro for example to create little
> animated randomized object boxes?
> 
> i thought you could send a [;pd refresh{ or something like that but i cant
> find it. am i crazy?
> 
> m

One thing I want to add is a 'pd-gui' receive for sending messages to the GUI.
 This would be analogous to the 'pd' receive, i.e. [;pd dsp 1(  But that's
just an idea at this point.

For your case, I think you want to bind to the <<Loaded>> event to refresh
once the patch is finished loading.  Then also, you could bind to a FocusIn
event to make something happen whenever the window gets focus.  There are
other events you can bind to that will be useful to you:
http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TkCmd/bind.htm

.hc


> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>wrote:
> 
>>
>> Pd uses almost all of the available widgets in Tk:
>> http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/Keywords/W.htm#widget
>>
>> The 'text' widget doesn't respond to -size:
>> http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TkCmd/text.htm
>>
>> You need to specify the point or pixel size as part of the font:
>> $tkcanvas itemconfigure text -fill red -font {Helvetica 16}  ;# points
>> $tkcanvas itemconfigure text -fill red -font {Helvetica -16}  ;# negative
>> is
>> pixels
>>
>> You can also create a 'font' to have that setting in one spot:
>> http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TkCmd/font.htm
>>
>> Please add anything you find useful to the wiki:
>> http://puredata.info/docs/guiplugins/GUIPlugins/
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On 01/24/2013 04:06 PM, me.grimm wrote:
>>> i finally have a chance to play around with the gui-plugin stuff. using
>>> "tkcanvas itemconfigure" im playing around with changing the look of my
>>> patches in performance mode. question: is there a list / documentation of
>>> the gui elements? other than reading over the pd-gui tcl code?
>>>
>>> without knowing much i was doing things like:
>>>
>>> $tkcanvas itemconfigure text -fill red -font Helvetica -size 16
>>>
>>> but -size gives me error
>>>
>>> so maybe there is something more other than a trial and error approach or
>>> use of css knowledge which obviously does not completely translate.
>>>
>>>
>>> m
>>>
>>>
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