Hi Ingo,
Indeed a scrollbar on a dropdown-menu wouldn't be very good GUI design
practice.
The pmenu should be easier to adapt. I guess the original intention to
have it start a new column every 30th item, but that doesn't work. I
could try to fix this and make the max-column-length an option. Maybe
even keep the current behaviour if no max-column-length is specified to
keep backward compatible. It might be someone depends on it.
BTW, the COLUMNBREAK = 30 is in pmenu_w.h.
Greetings,
Fred Jan
Hi Fred,
no scrollbar please ! ! !
But on Windows I do at least have the possibility to scroll down if not all
values are shown.
On Linux that's not possible. I can fit 56 entries on my full HD screen and
the rest is not accessible at all.
I suspect that this is part of the operating system ...
So, dividing the menu into several rows - if needed - would look like the best
way to do it.
[tof/pmenu] does this but unfortunately the first column is limited to 30
entries and the number of columns seems to be limited to 2.
Looks like [tof/pmenu] would be easier to change to do what I need by
extending the number of entries per row and columns.
Being able to set a maximum amount of rows per column would be perfect with up
to 4 or 5 rows.
I had downloaded the source code before but since I'm no good at these things
I couldn't manage to change it.
Ingo
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Jan Kraan [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2020 1:40 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Scrolllbar/dropdown list. Was: : [PD] Fixed: menubutton bug ...
Hi Ingo,
A lot is possible, as Tk commands are created and executed. But do I
understand correctly, you want a menu-dropdown list with a scrollbar?
Your application is probably not a menu, but I would think selecting from a
128 or 256 items-list would call for a different GUI solution.
But I can look into it to see what is possible with Tk. Don't hold your
breath
and make sure to look for alternative solutions (like jmmmp/cellblock?).
Greetings,
Fred Jan
Hi Fred,
[tof/menubutton] is a great extarnal !
One thing that's on my wishlist which would be the ability to use columns.
I need sometimes menus with more items that fit onto a single HDMI
screen like
128 MIDI program names or menus with up to 256 items.
Would it be possible to add columns to fit all items onto one screen
without having to scroll?
In order to work best it should either be settable how many rows are
in one column or it should be set automatically according to the screen
size.
Right now I'm getting 61 rows on Windows, if I remember correctly I
got 60 (?) on Debian.
At least on my Windows mashine that I used for testing I could not
scroll with my mouse wheel.
Not sure atm if it works on Linux where I usually need to use it.
Thanks!
Ingo
From: Pd-list [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fred
Jan Kraan
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2020 9:52 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [PD] Fixed: menubutton bug ...
Hi List,
A new version of tof, 0.2.3 is available which fixes this bug, caused
by my code-cleanup in 0.2.2. It is available for all the usual
platforms. Thanks to Oliver for finding and reporting the bug.
Greetings,
Fred Jan
On 12/09/2020 03.09, oliver wrote:
Hi,
i just discovered a bug in the [menubutton] object of the TOF library,
in version 0.2.2
if you send a float to the [menubutton] object to recall an item by
index (or also if you just want to "set" it with a float), it is
always interpreted as 0, no matter what the sent number was.
on the other hand, symbols work, also with the "set" method.
this bug wasn't there in TOF version 0.2.1, i checked it on PD 0.48
through
0.51 (both 32 and 64 bit versions)
best
oliver
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