[PD] getting vanilla gui objects into standalone builds

[Dan Wilcox]

Howdy Jakob,

There is no "standalone GUI" for mobile. The UI widgets for PdDroidParty and my own PdParty are custom re-implementations which intercept messages using sends/receives. Both apps are open source, so you can reuse the widgets but PdDroidParty's implementation is not feature complete, ie. no radio buttons, etc. MobMuPlat, for instance, uses the Pd UI implementation form PdParty.

For mobile, it's often better to use the native sliders and buttons and send the state changes to/from libpd. Either way, you will have to do native platform coding & integration, unless you simply want to run patches, in which case try using PdParty and/or PdDroidParty.

My long-term plan is to bring changes into libpd & the pd core so GUI messaging could be abstracted to make porting the native UIs to non-Tk frameworks easier. Purr-data has achieved this, for instance, so we know it's possible.

> On Jun 21, 2020, at 1:52 PM, Christof Ressi <info at christofressi.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> on desktop it's easy: just bundle Pd with your patch, add a simple starter script and maybe use the KIOSK plugin to hide the console.
> 
> Mobile is tricky, because of the locked down nature of the platforms (especially iOS). There are projects to run Pd patches on Android (http://droidparty.net/ <http://droidparty.net/>) and iOS (http://danomatika.com/code/pdparty <http://danomatika.com/code/pdparty>) with some compatibility between the two (http://danomatika.com/code/pdparty/guide#pddroid-party-compatibility <http://danomatika.com/code/pdparty/guide#pddroid-party-compatibility>). You have to follow some conventions, though.
> 
> If you design your patch for PdParty and/or PdDroidParty and don't use mobile specific features, it should automatically work in desktop Pd vanilla. I think @Dan can tell you more about it.
> 
> Christof
> 
> On 21.06.2020 12:16, Jakob Laue wrote:
>> Hey dear friends,
>> i am currently building an instrument with many vanilla-native gui objects (mainly buttons).
>> I would like to build standalone versions of that patch, preferably for linux, osx, ios and android.
>> I know that building standalones is possible eg with ofxPof or ofelia. But as far as i know, if i use ofxPof or ofelia, I will need to use "their" gui objects, which means re-working my patch.
>>  
>> Do you know of a tool that allows building standalone versions from a pd patch that will keep the original pd-vanilla-gui objects - or even better - a tool that is able to "convert" pd-vanilla-gui objects into its own types of gui objects, which look maybe a bit different from the pd-object, but fulfill the same purpose?
>>  
>> :-)))
>>  
>> Best, jakob
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> Pd-list at lists.iem.at <mailto:Pd-list at lists.iem.at> mailing list
>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list <https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list>

--------
Dan Wilcox
@danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika>
danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/>
robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/>



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/attachments/20200621/e8b5c313/attachment.html>