Well, I wanted to take this on if others thought it was a good idea, but my laptop was just stolen from my flat (brand new Macbook Pro!).. arg. Hopefully I can scrape together a linux pc or something soon. If so, I´ll chime back in on this thread for suggestions.
rich 2010/1/22 Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at> > > On Jan 22, 2010, at 1:12 PM, András Murányi wrote: > > Rich E wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > I was just thinking, as I noticed that Hans made it where Apple+, opens > the > > preferences menu on OS X (as does every other native-mac app), why not > group > > all the preferences in one dialog, with sub dialogs? This is how other > apps > > I use on OS X behave and I find it convenient. Besides, if you save the > > settings, all of the settings get dumped to the preferences file, no? > Why > > not have them all in the same dialog, openable by a hotkey. > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:14 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at>wrote: > >> >> The only reason its not like that is because someone hasn't done the >> work. I'd love to be able to include that work in pd-gui-rewrite. Be >> aware, it'll probably require some weirdness, because of the nature of >> the messages that the pref panels send to 'pd'. But I don't think it >> would be too hard. >> >> One downside is that it you couldn't use Tcl/Tk 8.5 if you want it to be >> included in Pd-vanilla. But I am planning on switching Pd-extended 0.43 >> to Tcl/Tk 8.5 and above, since 8.5 adds a lot of very useful GUI stuff. >> >> .hc >> >> > Let me think a bit forward on this... when you say a dialog and sub > dialogs, do you mean a dialog with multiple tabs (that is what i see to be > popular in practice) or literally many modals available from one central > modal? > I'd say tabs make the most sense, but i see that some of the dialogs are > produced by the C > side not Tcl/Tk (are they?) in which case it will not be easy to stuff them > into the tabs. > I'm asking because i would be willing to code this up. > > > In 0.43, the prefs dialogs are split out into separate Tcl files: > dialog_audio.tcl > dialog_midi.tcl > dialog_path.tcl > dialog_startup.tcl > > I think each in its own tab makes a lot of sense. > > .hc > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Access to computers should be unlimited and total. - the hacker ethic > > >
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