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 <[email protected]>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. Andras
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