[PD] Better zoom/scaling in Vanilla?

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

Em qua., 27 de out. de 2021 às 11:30, Lorenzo Sutton <
lorenzofsutton at gmail.com> escreveu:

> Every now and then this reappears on the list... but here goes:
>
> will there be a better "zoom" in Pd? Currently working on a higher
> resolution screen (call it HiDPI or whatever...)


How exactly 'high' are we talking about?


> implies either the 2x
> zoom which is typically too much


Using the max resolution on a mac it doesn't seem too much to me...



> or changing font size which typically
> breaks existing patches, and does not increase (proportionally) the
> relative size of IEM guis such as toggles, bangs, etc.
>

Well, if you start your own patch, that shouldn' be a problem of course.
This is more of a problem if you're checking other people's patches. And we
can have a feature that adjusts the initial default size of iemguis
depending on the current canvas' font, that's easy.



> Purr Data and Pd-L2Ork do it nicely, but it seems a bit overkill to pull
> in all imaginable Pd libraries/externals


it's a lot of externals, but not "all imaginable" ones at all... :) I see
it might be just a comical exaggeration though. I for one, last time I
checked, missed deken and the fact it can't run as much externals as Pd
can, amongst other things.

just to have some nice visuals
> (although being a visual dataflow language, visual clarity _is_ indeed
> relevant), plus you are forced to curvy chords (which although popular
> with the most) IMHO break the original Pd aesthetics :-)
>

you can request them to offer uncurved connections via some setting... I
also hate those curves, it should be illegal.


> Ideally vanilla would have a nice zooming / scale factor functionality
> which doesn't break patch proportions...(e.g. Ardour does it very well) :-)
>
> Any tips, tricks or thoughts for this in vanilla would also be interesting.
>
> Lorenzo.
>
>
>
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