2009/9/13 András Murányi <muran...@gmail.com>: > > > 2009/9/13 Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at> >> >> 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.
Yo, just a quick suggestion to make Pd a better Mac citizen – closing the console should just hide it (and you'd then be able to pull it up again from the Window menu). That plus a "Show Console on Startup" preference would make Pd much more "patch-redistribution-to-those-without-Pd-knowledge" friendly. Sorry I can't offer code, hopefully I'll have time to return to the fold very soon! Luke > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list