[PD] Pd-list Digest, Vol 152, Issue 33

[rolfm at dds.nl]

update:
" after opening by double-clicking patch.pd the menu bar is NOT hidden 
at
  first;
  after clicking somewhere in the window of the patch the menu bar
  disappears."

it now appears to be intermittent; sometimes the menu bar is immediatly 
hidden,
sometimes the click is necessary.

rolf

> 
> @IOhannes
> 
> thanks for the clarification.
> 
>>> - when opening the patch by double-click (binding of the extension)
>>>   the menu-bar hides AFTER clicking in the patch.
> 
>> i don't know what exactly you mean by this.
> 
> after opening by double-clicking patch.pd the menu bar is NOT hidden at
> first;
> after clicking somewhere in the window of the patch the menu bar
> disappears.
> 
> rolf
> 
> On 11/17/2017 07:44 AM, rolfm at dds.nl wrote:
>> hi
>> 
>> the working of the kiosk-plugin seems a bit inconsistent.
>> 
>> i'm on Windows 10, vanilla 0.48-0., using the plugin from GitHub 
>> (IEM).
>> 
>> hiding the menu-bar:
>> 
>> when the kiosk.cfg is in the plugin dir (@appdata)
>> - hiding works directly, after starting Pd first and then opening the
>> patch.
>> 
>> (this also is the case using Pd-extended)
>> 
>> - when opening the patch by double-click (binding of the extension)
>>   the menu-bar hides AFTER clicking in the patch.
> 
> i don't know what exactly you mean by this.
> 
>> 
>> when the kiosk.cfg is in the working directory:
>> 
>> -after starting Pd first, then opening the patch, hiding does not work
>> at all.
> 
> how does Pd know about your working directory?
> 
>> 
>> (same goes for Pd-extended)
>> 
>> - using the double-click method, again the menu-bar hides AFTER
>> clicking
>> in the patch.
> 
> i guess this means that the behaviour is the same as with kiosk.cfg in
> the plugin dir.
> 
> 
> while i don't fully understand your problem description, here's a
> thought:
> 
> kiosk works "per Pd instance" rather than per patch¹.
> (so it doesn't allow you to have the menu hidden on the "foo" and "bar"
> abstractions but not on all the other abstractions).
> 
> if kiosk.cfg is in the plugin-dir, the kiosk-plugin will be able to 
> find
> it when Pd starts, and apply the configuration whenever a patch gets
> opened.
> if your kiosk.cfg lies besides your PATCH.pd (the main patch you try to
> open), and you double-click the PATCH.pd, then W32 will automatically
> make the PATCH.pd's  directory the working directory into which it
> starts Pd. thus the plugin will be able to find the kiosk.cfg when
> starting up.
> however, if you first start Pd, and then navigate to PATCH.pd, the
> kiosk-plugin already has initialized (without finding a valid kiosk.cfg
> file) and will not read the new file. (Pd's working directory will be
> something like "C:\" or %UserData% or whatelse)
> 
> gfmasdr
> IOhannes
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ¹ of course you could add a feature request if such a feature is of
> interest to you.
> 
> 
>