--- On Mon, 9/13/10, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PD] Hi, new user. Question about max/msp and PD > To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Frank Barknecht" <[email protected]>, "Mathieu Bouchard" > <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Date: Monday, September 13, 2010, 11:46 PM > 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 > > That sounds cool. Hm, I was reading through the sourcerepositories page on puredata.info, and I'm not sure how I'd go about trying those objects out. Do I need to compile pd-extended from svn, or is there a way to just compile that library and use it with the nightly build? (I tried make in tkwidgets/ but got the "no rule to make target" error.) -Jonathan _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
