On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 09:46 -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > > --- On Mon, 9/13/10, Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [PD] Hi, new user. Question about max/msp and PD > > To: "Frank Barknecht" <[email protected]> > > Cc: [email protected] > > Date: Monday, September 13, 2010, 5:19 PM > > On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Frank Barknecht > > wrote: > > > > > Oh, and instead of [transport] just use a metro with a > > counter sending to some global receiver. Read from this with > > [select] to get a kind of Max-5's [timepoint] clone. See, > > there's no magic behind these new Max 5 features, they just > > unified a bit what all Max/Pd users do anyway in their > > patches. > > > > It's also that it's more marketable if they add rather > > trivial features just so that they can say «Max 5 has more > > features about time scale !». It's easier than to explain > > to them that Max doesn't need those features. > > Better object documentation in Pd is a trivial feature in this sense-- > it's easier for you to spend your time documenting GF objects than > to explain how to read the source code. (See, there's no magic behind > those GF objects!) > > Also, it's more marketable if Max has an object like [textedit] where > the user can type multi-line text into a box. It's easier than > picking through the Toxy graveyard and learning that you can't send > messages to the widget unless its containing canvas is visible, then > trying to work with [entry] and having the data you typed in the > box disappear because you minimized the window. Then realizing that the > whole reason you're looking for an object that corresponds to [textedit] > is because you can't resize message boxes (and they don't appear on a gop > canvas). > > -Jonathan
You could try tkwidgets/text. I really should finish that library. Its close to done, and it'll probably a suite of nice GUI objects, including something like textedit. .hc _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
