2009/9/13 Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> > > It looks so nice on the Mac...! ;o) > > It's a pity it looks way less 21th Century here on Hardy... fyi I have > attached the screenshot. > > > Make you are are running Tcl/Tk 8.5 and it'll look much better. Install > tcl8.5 and tk8.5, then run: > "update-alternatives --config wish" and choose wish8.5. Then Pd will use > the much improved Wish 8.5. >
Thanks! Now fonts are anti-aliased. Plus the startup plugins started to work, which means that at least some of them don't work with tcl/tk<=8.4. I have attached a screenshot for your viewing pleasure. > I have also mocked up a version with my ideas (which are based on my rather > limited knowledge of Pd). Please take a look at it. > > > Did you mock it up in Tcl? > Nay. Xara Xtreme ;o) - Afaik the IN/OUT meters are for the DSP so I would group them with the DSP switch. Makes sense. > > - I would omit the IN/OUT meter switch. Can we? Or is this a CPU-hog? > > > I think its useful just to be able to have less distractions. > Useful to have it? So that the meter doesn't distract you? Or useful to omit? So the switch doesn't distract you? ;o) > > - I would suggest having some kind of MIDI IN/OUT LEDs... which could also > serve as switches in case you want to suspend MIDI reception or > transmission. In my graphics they are just simple switches but I'm not sure > it is possible to 'blink' those switches. If not, then we could have > separate switches and LEDs. > > > That also sounds useful for those who use MIDI. 'pd' is not currently > sending 'pd-gui' that info tho. > I'm one of the guys who don't use DSP, my output is nuttin-but-MIDI. (Now that I think there may be guys whos output is mainly to the network...) > - A LOAD meter. Is this a CPU hog? If not, can we have it on the Pd window? > (It is quite hidden under the Media menu, imho also because Media is a quite > fuzzy name.) > > > That's a nice idea. It would require writing the Tcl code to get the load > from the OS, but that's probably easy. > Once we clean up the Media menu, we may be able to find a better name for it. Just my 2 cents. > - Console hide, clear. Let's try to have it somewhere right above the > console! > > > A clear button is ok, it is on the File menu. As for hide, I think its > easier to just have window resizing work well. With the pdwindow in > pd-gui-rewrite, you can manually resize it down to just the metters/buttons. > At the current version, i have 'Clear console' in the Edit menu but Hide console is gone. I think it could be kept however (regardless of what is the actual routine that it runs), and I even think it's not bad to provide it on the GUI and in the menu as well. Anyway, it's certainly good to have a control as close to the controlled item as possible, whenever possible. BTW, I have a dream which is that the console is tabbed, and the default tab displays system messages, while for each [print PREFIX] a new tab is opened. That way messages get separated by PREFIX. It's just a silly dream, forget it ;op > .hc > Thanks for your time! Andras
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