[PD] testing some 0.48.0 GUI updates

Dan Wilcox danomatika at gmail.com
Mon Jul 17 12:16:51 CEST 2017


Forgot to add:

* Help browser now opens things using the Enter and Right Arrow keys. Great for navigating using the keyboard.

> On Jul 17, 2017, at 12:13 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Howdy all,
> 
> Can y'all test some of the relevant GUI updates the 0.48.0 test release? A few I can think of are:
> 
> * New preferences system: basically the core prefs have now been separated from the gui prefs and there is a new submenu for this
> 
> * The translation build system has been updated as it wasn't automatically refreshing the translation files. For translators, there should be new strings to add and other to update (see po/README.txt for details). For users, the menu titles should now be translated for those languages which do so.
> 
> * Some button sizing was fixed in the Find, Audio, MIDI, Path, & Startup dialogs.
> 
> * The HSlider entry in the Put menu had the wrong key-shortcut shown. This is fixed.
> 
> * The Font dialog can now only be opened when a canvas or Pd window is active as it has no effect on dialogs. Focus handling was also improved.
> 
> * The Find dialog:
>   - no longer hide after search on macOS
>   - search string in label now properly truncated for overly long searches
>   - button placement improved
>   - entry selection now highlighted on window focus in for keyboardists
> 
> * Default macOS Preferences hotkey (CMD+,) now opens Audio dialog instead of Startup dialog
> 
> * Audio & MIDI dialogs should no longer open behind if the other is visible.
> 
> *  LOTS of typos were fixed in the doc & help patches :) Hopefully the layout stays the same. Also, updated relevant documentation URLS
> 
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> Dan Wilcox
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> 
> 
> 

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Dan Wilcox
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danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/>
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