*sigh* Yes, that's the plan, however it depends on a number of things and is not trivial, mainly due to macOS still being stuck with Tk 8.4 for now. I answered this same request on the pd-list already.
My current suggestion is the pragmatic approach that doesn't involve me spending another week on Pd working on dialogs. > On Jul 19, 2017, at 4:51 PM, Paul Rankin <he...@paulwrankin.com> wrote: > > What about merging all the preference dialogs into one, with tabs? > > -- > www.paulwrankin.com > > On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, at 12:13 AM, Dan Wilcox wrote: >> In debugging some preferences GUI behavior, I'm wondering about the need for >> the "Save all preferences" menu option. I say that because, so far, both the >> path and startup dialogs already send "pd save-preferences" when the ok >> button is pressed. Also, the audio dialog has the "Save All Settings" button >> and we really only need to add similar functionality to the midi dialog. >> >> I propose the following: >> * path & startup dialogs save preferences with ok button (current behavior) >> * audio & midi dialogs save preferences with ok button (add this) >> * remove "Save all preferences" button in audio dialog >> * remove "Save all preferences" menu option as I think this is >> counterintuitive... >> >> Conceptually I see things like this: >> * there is a current preference state at all times >> * the state is loaded from the default location at start >> * this state can be updated when making changes in the dialogs and hitting >> the ok button >> * I can save and load the state to and from external files >> * I can clear the state >> >> The "Save all preferences" menu option implies there are separate states >> between the GUI and pd core. As far as I can tell, there currently aren't. >> >> -------- >> Dan Wilcox >> @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika> >> danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/> >> robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pd-dev mailing list >> Pd-dev@lists.iem.at >> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev -------- Dan Wilcox @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika> danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/> robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/>
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