----- Original Message -----
> From: Max <[email protected]>
> To: Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]>; PD list <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, February 2, 2013 1:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [PD] Apply missing
>
> Am 27.01.2012 um 17:39 schrieb Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]>:
>> On Jan 27, 2012, at 11:26 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: Max <[email protected]>
>>>> Am 27.01.2012 um 02:50 schrieb Hans-Christoph Steiner:
>>>>> On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 22:51 +0100, Max wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> i noticed that in the current autobuilds of Pd-extended the
> property
>>>> dialogs for the gui-objects are missing the Apply-Button. Is that a
> bug or a
>>>> feature?
>>>>>> IMHO this is a bug - if you want to adjust for instance a
> canvas to be
>>>> the same size as another object of unknown size you can do that
> with a few
>>>> clicks and the help of the Apply button. If you have to click OK
> and then go to
>>>> context menu->Properties, set the size, OK repeately to do that
> it's
>>>> simply annoying.
>>>>>>
>>>>> That seems like a good enough reason, I brought back the Apply
> button to
>>>>> the iemgui Properties panel on Mac OS X. It was originally
> moved since
>>>>> the whole "OK, Apply, Cancel" is very Windows-like,
> but there
>>>> isn't an
>>>>> easy way to make to work better, so the Apply button is back.
> IMHO,
>>>>> when you change the setting, it should take effect immediately.
>>>>
>>>> great. i agree that ideally i'd like to be able to see that
> change happen
>>>> immediately. even better: when grabbing the bottom-right corner
> i'd have an
>>>> anchor to scale the object (see Max/MSP for that)…
>>>
>>> Also see: pd-l2ork
>>
>> I think you are referring to Ico trying to make the iemguis resizable live
> with a handle. I should finally get to releasing something useful form the
> tkwidgets lib, since that also includes resizing with a handle.
>
> I just had another Idea how to solve this: Two buttons: Cancel and OK when
> you
> change some properties in the Dialog the OK Button becomes labeled Apply. If
> clicked on Apply, the new properties are applied and the Button becomes
> labeled
> OK. If you click OK the Dialog is closed.
> That way a double click on Apply will apply and close the dialog.
That would double the number of clicks for users who never want to use
Apply.
-Jonathan
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