Hey guys! Had a really long week, so didn’t have too much time to look into the mailing list.
Alexandre: Yes, it was basically just to have a knob, but a more customisable knob. I did take part in the knob talk, both in Facebook group and on GitHub. This idea was just the next step(in my head at least) :) I just thought it would be a bit more “open” to have a knob that can change the way it looks, by loading an SVG on to it. It would really open up a huge world for making nicer UI’s in PD :) I will look into the tcl/tk stuff, thanks :) Jonathan: Oh, so it’s not going to be a straight forward job, I guess. I will do some research about the tcl/tk, to understand it a bit better, thanks for the hints. All though it doesn’t seem possible, as you describe it. I did think about the knob idea, with maybe 128 images, with different knob positions. But it seems like a huge amount of work to go through and would have to be redone if one wants to make another knob, with another UI. But yeah, I think I need to try it out :) The game looks really cool by the way, inspiring ;) I try to just use one single version of PD, before I had many instances and settings messed up all the time, cause it loaded the wrong settings for the wrong version of PD and make a mess of things. So I try to just stick with one single version. Have a great weekend ;) Jakob Alexandres mail pasted in: Hi, is this only for "knobs" and just to have a knob in Pd? I assume not, cause there are knob externals for Pd and a PR to include one in Vanilla https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/938 <https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/938> But I guess the point is a more generic object to load SVG files and period, which sounds like a good thing in general! I'm still learning a bit about GUI objects in Pd, but I guess what you need to research is if tcl/tk can load SVG files and how. So start by doing a google search on "tcl/tk + SVG". For what I see in the same search is that it does seem possible indeed! > On 23 Oct 2020, at 23.02, Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Jakob, > > Purr Data uses an HTML5 interface and the guis are drawn using SVGs. > > There is also Pd-l2ork 1.0 which uses a library called "tkpath" for a subset > of SVG functionality on a special tkpath canvas widget. Sadly, the original > author of that library passed away and AFAICT the library hasn't been ported > forward for more recent versions of tcl/tk. > > As for tcl/tk-- it appears the next version of tk will do a one time > conversion from an SVG file to a raster image. But that would not give you > the ability to change any of the attributes on the fly-- e.g., rotating the > knob based on input values. > > On the other hand, I guess you could load the same knob SVG image multiple > times and just substitute a different rotation value for each image loaded. > Once loaded, you could switch out the displayed image displayed with the > correct rotation value for the given input. > > That's basically what I did for the little sprite game I wrote in Purr Data, > and it worked pretty well both using tkpath and in HTML5[2]. > > [1] https://core.tcl-lang.org/tips/doc/trunk/tip/507.md > <https://core.tcl-lang.org/tips/doc/trunk/tip/507.md> > [2] https://forum.puredata.info/topic/13081/purr-data-sprite-game > <https://forum.puredata.info/topic/13081/purr-data-sprite-game> > > On Friday, October 23, 2020, 12:07:45 PM EDT, Jakob Skouborg > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hey guys! > Just some Friday thoughts about Pure Data and UI elements, like knobs, etc.: > In VCV rack, it's pretty easy to make your own knobs for your modules. You > can use the free open source program called Inkscape to make a knob, which is > basically an SVG file. > I was thinking that it would be really cool to be able to do something > similar in Pure Data. To have an object/external that can load these knob SVG > files into it, and then use the mouse to set a value(and knob position) > between 0-1, either by dragging up/down or left/right and pressing the mouse > on top of the object. It would really open up a whole new universe for Pure > Data and making nice user interfaces. > > I have been playing with coding audio stuff for a few years in c++, mostly at > hobby level, and I was wondering how hard it would be to make an object like > that(if possible at all), that can load an SVG files created in Inkscape? > Since VCV Rack is open source, I think I am going to see if I can find the > code for the knob implementation this weekend, to see how it works in VCV. > But first of all I am just curious about it and was looking for more > experienced programmers though, especially you guys, who know a lot about PD, > if it's a completely lost cause or if it is plausible idea. > Personally I have not yet created any Pure Data externals, but I have been > looking through some of dr. Hernandez pure data external creation tutorials > on YT. I did make a bunch of VCV rack modules, so I know a bit about that. > Any thoughts are welcome > Besides that, have a great weekend! > > Best wishes, Jakob > _______________________________________________ > Pd-dev mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev > <https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev>
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