Re: [PD] UI developer volunteering to help - more suggestions

2008-05-21 Thread João Pais
 Hmm, I can't reproduce this on Mac OS X 10.4.11/Intel with Pd-extended  
 0.40.3-20080517

I was playing a bit with it - it also works if a patch/subpatch window is  
closed and reopened. but anyway, if possible, an instant implementation  
would be the most desirable. only that way it would be possible to make a  
psychadelic canvas, yeah!


2 details:
- if there are gops (like in my abstractions, you can try with [lbang]),  
then they'll have the canvas color. if possible, it would make sense to  
use the object box color, I guess. but there was no gop parameter, is it  
possbile to make one?
- when filled, objects loose transparency. it doesn't bother me, but I  
just wanted to give notice.


Ah, by the way, on your original patch the msg_nlet parameter was misnamed.

(still on 0.40.3-extended-20080515 XP)



 .hc

 On May 20, 2008, at 5:47 PM, João Pais wrote:

 apparently the color scheme gets renewed when Tk grabs a window. if I  
 change the scheme, and also something in the patch, when I try to close  
 and pd asks to discard changes the color scheme gets updated (but only  
 in the window that was activated). I guess it might be possible to  
 include a message in sys_gui to bang the windows after a colorscheme  
 message? or maybe to all open windows?

 João



 On May 15, 2008, at 2:17 AM, João Pais wrote:

 A couple of weeks ago we also taked about the possibility of
 having user-defined color themes. I think that could be quite
 interesting, because you could have a brighter theme to work at
 home, a darker for concert/performance, etc. etc.  Hans told us
 where to find the color scheme, but I didn't find the Tk color
 codes yet (ok, I tried a bit, but not too much). A small applet
 to define the pd-colors would be great, but that's already too
 much to ask, there are probably more important stuff first.

 Sounds useful, patches welcome!

 actually, if these settings could be controlled by pd itself, it
 would be quite easy to make a patch to manage these issues. or then
 just implement it on the interface's menus, maybe it makes more
 sense with the current pd structure.


 you are exactly right, and luckily, it's already possible:




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Re: [PD] UI developer volunteering to help - more suggestions

2008-05-20 Thread João Pais
apparently the color scheme gets renewed when Tk grabs a window. if I  
change the scheme, and also something in the patch, when I try to close  
and pd asks to discard changes the color scheme gets updated (but only in  
the window that was activated). I guess it might be possible to include  
a message in sys_gui to bang the windows after a colorscheme message? or  
maybe to all open windows?

João



 On May 15, 2008, at 2:17 AM, João Pais wrote:

 A couple of weeks ago we also taked about the possibility of
 having user-defined color themes. I think that could be quite
 interesting, because you could have a brighter theme to work at
 home, a darker for concert/performance, etc. etc.  Hans told us
 where to find the color scheme, but I didn't find the Tk color
 codes yet (ok, I tried a bit, but not too much). A small applet
 to define the pd-colors would be great, but that's already too
 much to ask, there are probably more important stuff first.

 Sounds useful, patches welcome!

 actually, if these settings could be controlled by pd itself, it
 would be quite easy to make a patch to manage these issues. or then
 just implement it on the interface's menus, maybe it makes more
 sense with the current pd structure.


 you are exactly right, and luckily, it's already possible:




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Re: [PD] UI developer volunteering to help - more suggestions

2008-05-20 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner

Hmm, I can't reproduce this on Mac OS X 10.4.11/Intel with Pd- 
extended 0.40.3-20080517

.hc

On May 20, 2008, at 5:47 PM, João Pais wrote:

 apparently the color scheme gets renewed when Tk grabs a window.  
 if I change the scheme, and also something in the patch, when I try  
 to close and pd asks to discard changes the color scheme gets  
 updated (but only in the window that was activated). I guess it  
 might be possible to include a message in sys_gui to bang the  
 windows after a colorscheme message? or maybe to all open windows?

 João



 On May 15, 2008, at 2:17 AM, João Pais wrote:

 A couple of weeks ago we also taked about the possibility of
 having user-defined color themes. I think that could be quite
 interesting, because you could have a brighter theme to work at
 home, a darker for concert/performance, etc. etc.  Hans told us
 where to find the color scheme, but I didn't find the Tk color
 codes yet (ok, I tried a bit, but not too much). A small applet
 to define the pd-colors would be great, but that's already too
 much to ask, there are probably more important stuff first.

 Sounds useful, patches welcome!

 actually, if these settings could be controlled by pd itself, it
 would be quite easy to make a patch to manage these issues. or then
 just implement it on the interface's menus, maybe it makes more
 sense with the current pd structure.


 you are exactly right, and luckily, it's already possible:




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Re: [PD] UI developer volunteering to help - more suggestions

2008-05-20 Thread João Pais
 Hmm, I can't reproduce this on Mac OS X 10.4.11/Intel with Pd-extended  
 0.40.3-20080517

it works on a XP, 0.40.3-extended-20080515.

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Re: [PD] UI developer volunteering to help - more suggestions

2008-05-20 Thread simon wise

On 16 May 2008, at 1:10 AM, marius schebella wrote:

 some programs open up a default new canvas (word, blender...), some  
 show
 up an assistant that asks you what you want to do (?...), but none
 opens up a document just for settings.


.. Vim does

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Re: [PD] UI developer volunteering to help - more suggestions

2008-05-20 Thread marius schebella
simon wise wrote:
 
 On 16 May 2008, at 1:10 AM, marius schebella wrote:
 
 some programs open up a default new canvas (word, blender...), some show
 up an assistant that asks you what you want to do (?...), but none
 opens up a document just for settings.
 
 
 .. Vim does
 
 simon

don't know what you mean. the settings for vim are in ~/.vimrc and when 
you type vim, there is what I would call an assistant.

~  VIM - Vi IMproved 

~ 
 

~  version 7.0.234 

~  by Bram Moolenaar et al. 

~  Vim is open source and freely distributable 

~ 
 

~ Become a registered Vim user! 

~ type  :help registerEnter   for information 

~
~ type  :qEnter   to exit 

~ type  :helpEnter  or  F1  for on-line help 

~ type  :help version7Enter   for version info

marius.

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Re: [PD] UI developer volunteering to help - more suggestions

2008-05-15 Thread João Pais

ah, one other thing:

when pasting something that is outside the visible window, the window  
arrows don't show up automatically anymore. that is, you get the arrows  
only after doing something with the window size (and maybe making it  
redraw).


here's a patch to demonstrate this. this happens in both windows and  
ubuntu, afair.


it also happens with data structures, when some created graphics are too  
big for the window.


João Pais




Hi,

I haven't been following the thread, but I wanted to leave a couple of  
sugestions that I had here:


I gues it would be nice that while typing an object (any kind of object)
- home / end / ctrl-a / ctrl-arrow / ctrl-del would work, like a normal  
text editor


I added Home/End to Pd-extended and submitted a patch to the tracker.   
Ctrl-A would be tricky on Windows and GNU/Linux since that is also  
select-all, but I added it on Mac OS X, since that is a default binding  
on Mac OS X text apps.


http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? 
func=detailaid=1964023group_id=55736atid=478072


This change is all in pd.tk/u_main.tk so you could easily add your own  
bindings, no compiling necessary.


- return finishes it (like clicking outside). except for coments, where  
it would make a line break that really remains there.


Hmm, good idea, maybe I'll do it another time..



A couple of weeks ago we also taked about the possibility of having  
user-defined color themes. I think that could be quite interesting,  
because you could have a brighter theme to work at home, a darker for  
concert/performance, etc. etc.  Hans told us where to find the color  
scheme, but I didn't find the Tk color codes yet (ok, I tried a bit,  
but not too much). A small applet to define the pd-colors would be  
great, but that's already too much to ask, there are probably more  
important stuff first.


Sounds useful, patches welcome!

.hc




Best,

João Pais




 



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Re: [PD] UI developer volunteering to help - more suggestions

2008-05-15 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner


On May 15, 2008, at 2:17 AM, João Pais wrote:

A couple of weeks ago we also taked about the possibility of  
having user-defined color themes. I think that could be quite  
interesting, because you could have a brighter theme to work at  
home, a darker for concert/performance, etc. etc.  Hans told us  
where to find the color scheme, but I didn't find the Tk color  
codes yet (ok, I tried a bit, but not too much). A small applet  
to define the pd-colors would be great, but that's already too  
much to ask, there are probably more important stuff first.


Sounds useful, patches welcome!


actually, if these settings could be controlled by pd itself, it  
would be quite easy to make a patch to manage these issues. or then  
just implement it on the interface's menus, maybe it makes more  
sense with the current pd structure.



you are exactly right, and luckily, it's already possible:



color_scheme.pd
Description: Binary data



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Re: [PD] UI developer volunteering to help - more suggestions

2008-05-15 Thread João Pais
 A couple of weeks ago we also taked about the possibility of
 having user-defined color themes. I think that could be quite
 interesting, because you could have a brighter theme to work at
 home, a darker for concert/performance, etc. etc.  Hans told us
 where to find the color scheme, but I didn't find the Tk color
 codes yet (ok, I tried a bit, but not too much). A small applet
 to define the pd-colors would be great, but that's already too
 much to ask, there are probably more important stuff first.

 Sounds useful, patches welcome!

 actually, if these settings could be controlled by pd itself, it
 would be quite easy to make a patch to manage these issues. or then
 just implement it on the interface's menus, maybe it makes more
 sense with the current pd structure.


 you are exactly right, and luckily, it's already possible:

great. I can do a pd patch with a GUI to set up these parameters (I just  
can't say yet when it will be finished).
But I still think that it would be better if these settings would be read  
by pd itself, and loaded through a patch by the user. For example, the  
patch I c(w)ould write would output a text file with the pd-theme, and pd  
would access this file on startup (then an extra parameter would be added  
to pd).

I also think that the settings should at a later point be done in Tcl/Tk  
menus, but for now I guess the xxx.pd-theme text file would be enough. An  
even more mature option would be a tcl/tk dynamic window/menu with all the  
themes stored on the path, and it would only be necessary to click on one  
to make it work.

but first things first: if anyone wants really to work in it and has no  
hurry, I can start up the pd theme chooser.


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Re: [PD] UI developer volunteering to help - more suggestions

2008-05-15 Thread João Pais
 actually, if these settings could be controlled by pd itself, it
 would be quite easy to make a patch to manage these issues. or then
 just implement it on the interface's menus, maybe it makes more
 sense with the current pd structure.


 you are exactly right, and luckily, it's already possible:

nice, I was just looking at it. sys_gui is just fresh, right?
isn't it really possible to make the changes apply automatically? if not,  
it's a step in the good direction, but it's still not really great.


Ah, a couple more issues I had somewhere (well, more like details, not  
really important): [or was there a feature request link somewhere? I only  
know the bug report one]

- dual screen compatibility. pd patches always open in the same position  
as before. but if using a dual screen, windows that were saved on the  
other screen always appear in the main screen once they're reopened (but  
the coordinates match). (I'm on xp, and my main screen on the right side,  
if that makes a difference)

- is it possible to give the coordinates for the pd window to appear?  
that's just a detail, but I get used to divide the screen in a certain way  
(also to make sure I'm always controling the console while having my  
patches + hdsp mixer open). everytime I open pd I have to drag the window  
to the corner of the screen


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Re: [PD] UI developer volunteering to help - more suggestions

2008-05-15 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner

That bug is fixed on Pd-extended 0.40.3-20080515 on Mac OS X/Intel, I  
think it should be fixed on the other platforms as well.  I am not  
sure whether Miller has accepted that patch yet, but it should be in  
the tracker.

.hc

On May 15, 2008, at 1:10 PM, João Pais wrote:

 ah, one other thing:

 when pasting something that is outside the visible window, the  
 window arrows don't show up automatically anymore. that is, you get  
 the arrows only after doing something with the window size (and  
 maybe making it redraw).

 here's a patch to demonstrate this. this happens in both windows  
 and ubuntu, afair.

 it also happens with data structures, when some created graphics  
 are too big for the window.

 João Pais


 Hi,

 I haven't been following the thread, but I wanted to leave a  
 couple of sugestions that I had here:

 I gues it would be nice that while typing an object (any kind of  
 object)
 - home / end / ctrl-a / ctrl-arrow / ctrl-del would work, like a  
 normal text editor

 I added Home/End to Pd-extended and submitted a patch to the  
 tracker.  Ctrl-A would be tricky on Windows and GNU/Linux since  
 that is also select-all, but I added it on Mac OS X, since that is  
 a default binding on Mac OS X text apps.

 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? 
 func=detailaid=1964023group_id=55736atid=478072

 This change is all in pd.tk/u_main.tk so you could easily add your  
 own bindings, no compiling necessary.

 - return finishes it (like clicking outside). except for coments,  
 where it would make a line break that really remains there.

 Hmm, good idea, maybe I'll do it another time..


 A couple of weeks ago we also taked about the possibility of  
 having user-defined color themes. I think that could be quite  
 interesting, because you could have a brighter theme to work at  
 home, a darker for concert/performance, etc. etc.  Hans told us  
 where to find the color scheme, but I didn't find the Tk color  
 codes yet (ok, I tried a bit, but not too much). A small applet  
 to define the pd-colors would be great, but that's already too  
 much to ask, there are probably more important stuff first.

 Sounds useful, patches welcome!

 .hc



 Best,

 João Pais



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Re: [PD] UI developer volunteering to help - more suggestions

2008-05-15 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner

On May 15, 2008, at 1:39 PM, João Pais wrote:

 A couple of weeks ago we also taked about the possibility of
 having user-defined color themes. I think that could be quite
 interesting, because you could have a brighter theme to work at
 home, a darker for concert/performance, etc. etc.  Hans told us
 where to find the color scheme, but I didn't find the Tk color
 codes yet (ok, I tried a bit, but not too much). A small applet
 to define the pd-colors would be great, but that's already too
 much to ask, there are probably more important stuff first.

 Sounds useful, patches welcome!

 actually, if these settings could be controlled by pd itself, it
 would be quite easy to make a patch to manage these issues. or then
 just implement it on the interface's menus, maybe it makes more
 sense with the current pd structure.


 you are exactly right, and luckily, it's already possible:

 great. I can do a pd patch with a GUI to set up these parameters (I  
 just can't say yet when it will be finished).
 But I still think that it would be better if these settings would  
 be read by pd itself, and loaded through a patch by the user. For  
 example, the patch I c(w)ould write would output a text file with  
 the pd-theme, and pd would access this file on startup (then an  
 extra parameter would be added to pd).

 I also think that the settings should at a later point be done in  
 Tcl/Tk menus, but for now I guess the xxx.pd-theme text file would  
 be enough. An even more mature option would be a tcl/tk dynamic  
 window/menu with all the themes stored on the path, and it would  
 only be necessary to click on one to make it work.

 but first things first: if anyone wants really to work in it and  
 has no hurry, I can start up the pd theme chooser.

I am thinking of creating 'startup.pd', which would be a pd patch  
that is autmoatically loaded by Pd when it is started.  Then people  
could configure their own settings in the form of a Pd patch, for  
things that are more complicated than the preferences allow.

.hc



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Re: [PD] UI developer volunteering to help - more suggestions

2008-05-15 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner


On May 15, 2008, at 2:22 PM, João Pais wrote:


actually, if these settings could be controlled by pd itself, it
would be quite easy to make a patch to manage these issues. or then
just implement it on the interface's menus, maybe it makes more
sense with the current pd structure.



you are exactly right, and luckily, it's already possible:


nice, I was just looking at it. sys_gui is just fresh, right?
isn't it really possible to make the changes apply automatically?  
if not, it's a step in the good direction, but it's still not  
really great.



Ah, a couple more issues I had somewhere (well, more like details,  
not really important): [or was there a feature request link  
somewhere? I only know the bug report one]


- dual screen compatibility. pd patches always open in the same  
position as before. but if using a dual screen, windows that were  
saved on the other screen always appear in the main screen once  
they're reopened (but the coordinates match). (I'm on xp, and my  
main screen on the right side, if that makes a difference)


Please submit a bug report.

- is it possible to give the coordinates for the pd window to  
appear? that's just a detail, but I get used to divide the screen  
in a certain way (also to make sure I'm always controling the  
console while having my patches + hdsp mixer open). everytime I  
open pd I have to drag the window to the corner of the screen


Try this:


move_pd_window.pd
Description: Binary data



.hc





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Re: [PD] UI developer volunteering to help - more suggestions

2008-05-15 Thread João Pais
 - is it possible to give the coordinates for the pd window to
 appear? that's just a detail, but I get used to divide the screen
 in a certain way (also to make sure I'm always controling the
 console while having my patches + hdsp mixer open). everytime I
 open pd I have to drag the window to the corner of the screen

 Try this:

very nice, thanks.

this and what you just sent before could then be the first stones of the  
startup.pd patch you mentioned, that would set up the working  
environment theme.

would it be possible for startup.pd to be loaded hidden? it doesn't  
bother me, but some people might find it too complicated when too much  
material opens up. for example, another tick box named xXx could make  
that window appear/disappear.

actually when I start pd I have a patch with my working environment  
already popping up - but that's only to list the patches that I'm working  
on at the moment, so that they're only a click away. but maybe that's also  
interesting to other people as well? so the working features so far could  
be pd window position, color theme, favorite files list.


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Re: [PD] UI developer volunteering to help - more suggestions

2008-05-15 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner

On May 15, 2008, at 5:10 PM, marius schebella wrote:

 Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
 I am thinking of creating 'startup.pd', which would be a pd patch   
 that is autmoatically loaded by Pd when it is started.  Then  
 people  could configure their own settings in the form of a Pd  
 patch, for  things that are more complicated than the preferences  
 allow.

 I am not sure, if this is really a good solution, it could conflict  
 with the -open statement or patches that people already use on  
 startup.
 what you want to achieve is really more a settings issue, that has  
 to be set once, but you don't want an annoying startup patch  
 everytime.
 I am thinking of other programs, where you want to set your own  
 environment, and how that is handled.
 some programs open up a default new canvas (word, blender...), some  
 show up an assistant that asks you what you want to do (?...),  
 but none opens up a document just for settings.
 maybe your startup.pd should be a patch, called settings.pd and  
 will open when you chose it from the menu - workspace settings.  
 but write to a settings file.
 maybe people want different settings for different patches, then  
 the individual settings should be loadable with a [patchsettings  
 theme1] abstraction that you throw into your patch and the argument  
 refers to a pd style sheet.
 marius.

startup.pd would just a way to load/save settings like any other.  It  
could be easily optional, so if there was no startup.pd, it wouldn't  
do anything.  I would make it load invisibly, or perhaps it would be  
embedded in the Pd window... just ideas at the this point.D

.hc



 


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Re: [PD] UI developer volunteering to help - more suggestions

2008-05-14 Thread João Pais
Hi,

I haven't been following the thread, but I wanted to leave a couple of  
sugestions that I had here:

I gues it would be nice that while typing an object (any kind of object)
- home / end / ctrl-a / ctrl-arrow / ctrl-del would work, like a normal  
text editor
- return finishes it (like clicking outside). except for coments, where it  
would make a line break that really remains there.

A couple of weeks ago we also taked about the possibility of having  
user-defined color themes. I think that could be quite interesting,  
because you could have a brighter theme to work at home, a darker for  
concert/performance, etc. etc.  Hans told us where to find the color  
scheme, but I didn't find the Tk color codes yet (ok, I tried a bit, but  
not too much). A small applet to define the pd-colors would be great, but  
that's already too much to ask, there are probably more important stuff  
first.


Best,

João Pais

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Re: [PD] UI developer volunteering to help - more suggestions

2008-05-14 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner

On May 14, 2008, at 4:56 PM, João Pais wrote:

 Hi,

 I haven't been following the thread, but I wanted to leave a couple  
 of sugestions that I had here:

 I gues it would be nice that while typing an object (any kind of  
 object)
 - home / end / ctrl-a / ctrl-arrow / ctrl-del would work, like a  
 normal text editor

I added Home/End to Pd-extended and submitted a patch to the  
tracker.  Ctrl-A would be tricky on Windows and GNU/Linux since that  
is also select-all, but I added it on Mac OS X, since that is a  
default binding on Mac OS X text apps.

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? 
func=detailaid=1964023group_id=55736atid=478072

This change is all in pd.tk/u_main.tk so you could easily add your  
own bindings, no compiling necessary.

 - return finishes it (like clicking outside). except for coments,  
 where it would make a line break that really remains there.

Hmm, good idea, maybe I'll do it another time..


 A couple of weeks ago we also taked about the possibility of having  
 user-defined color themes. I think that could be quite interesting,  
 because you could have a brighter theme to work at home, a darker  
 for concert/performance, etc. etc.  Hans told us where to find the  
 color scheme, but I didn't find the Tk color codes yet (ok, I tried  
 a bit, but not too much). A small applet to define the pd-colors  
 would be great, but that's already too much to ask, there are  
 probably more important stuff first.

Sounds useful, patches welcome!

.hc



 Best,

 João Pais



 


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Re: [PD] UI developer volunteering to help - more suggestions

2008-05-14 Thread João Pais
 A couple of weeks ago we also taked about the possibility of having  
 user-defined color themes. I think that could be quite interesting,  
 because you could have a brighter theme to work at home, a darker for  
 concert/performance, etc. etc.  Hans told us where to find the color  
 scheme, but I didn't find the Tk color codes yet (ok, I tried a bit,  
 but not too much). A small applet to define the pd-colors would be  
 great, but that's already too much to ask, there are probably more  
 important stuff first.

 Sounds useful, patches welcome!

actually, if these settings could be controlled by pd itself, it would be  
quite easy to make a patch to manage these issues. or then just implement  
it on the interface's menus, maybe it makes more sense with the current pd  
structure.

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