[PD] Apply button missing from properties in 0.46.7

[Si Mills]

Wow that's fast! Is it something I can try myself? as I'm trying to fine
tune a bunch of gui elements form old abstractions and my right mouse
finger is getting tired :)

Thanks

On 3 December 2015 at 23:58, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok, I have it working in the canvas dialog.
>
> I basically unbind KeyPress_Enter from closing the dialog and then bind
> ::dialog_canvas::apply to Return in all the entry boxes as well as the
> equivalent to the checkbuttons. This is only enabled for OSX, so other
> platforms are untouched.
>
> It’s pretty nice, actually, since you can just tab to things and make
> updates with the keyboard only. One issue is that the buttons curreently
> don’t display a focus highlight. I’ll look into that and updating the other
> dialogs.
>
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>
> On Dec 3, 2015, at 2:03 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> “switch to linux” … real helpful :P
>
> I brought this up recently on pd-dev:
> http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-dev/2015-11/020478.html
>
> The curent situation is a bit half-way as the button was removed to match
> the Apple Human Interface Guidelines (aka persistent changes are saved by
> default, hence no “Apply” button). The problem is that updates are not
> applied until *after* the dialog is closed. This means making small GOP
> changes, for instance, is a pain in the ass since you have to keep opening
> and closing the dialog. IMO this works *against* the HIG as is far worse
> than simply having a button.
>
> There are two solutions:
>
> 1. simply bring back the Apply button on OSX, I did this on my version of
> Vanilla by commenting out some if statements in the tcl code
>
> 2. add apply code in the tcl to update the canvas/gui object whenever
> changes are applied to any text box in the dialog
>
> I’ll look into option 2 as it’s really the best solution.
>
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> Dan Wilcox
> @danomatika <https://twitter.com/danomatika>
> danomatika.com
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>
> On Dec 3, 2015, at 10:11 AM, pd-list-request at lists.iem.at wrote:
>
> *From: *IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
> *Date: *December 3, 2015 at 4:57:04 AM MST
> *To: *pd-list at lists.iem.at
> *Subject: **Re: [PD] Apply button missing from properties in 0.46.7*
>
>
> On 2015-12-03 12:41, Si Mills wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Is the omission of the Apply btn in the properties dialogues (present in
> Pd-extended) a feature of latest vanilla build or a bug?
>
>
> a feature¹.
>
> http://lists.puredata.info/namazu/pd-list/namazu.cgi?query=apply+button
>
> gsdfmt
> IOhannes
>
> ¹ that should go away. in the meantime you could switch to linux where
> there *is* an apply button.
>
>
>
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