For this release, there has been a lot of work in making the GUI and user experience much more fluid and easy. There is a new visual look that was designed to make patches more readable. Additionally, lots of things have been tweaked to make Pd behave more like a normal app. There has already been a lot of testing on these builds, so it is getting quite close to a final version. (Debian/PowerPC is missing now but will come later)
http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers.html
Here is a partial changelog:
- next visual appearance designed for readability (it can run slower on machines < 1 GHz)
- default locations for user-installed externals, helpfiles, etc. GNU/Linux: /usr/share/pd and ~/pd Mac OS X: /Library/Pd and ~/Library/Pd Windows: %ProgramFiles%/Common Files/Pd and %UserProfile%/ Application Data/Pd
- lots of standard key bindings added: Enter/Return for OK Escape for Cancel Ctrl/Cmd-W closes all windows on Mac OS X, Cmd-` cycles thru open windows on Mac OS X, Cmd-m minimizes windows Ctrl/Cmd-R raises/lowers Pd window Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-R shrinks/grows Pd window Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-L clears Pd window's text console Ctrl/Cmd-B opens the Help Browser
- you can now use "~" in all paths to mean home folder, and on Windows you can use environment variables, lie %UserProfile% in paths
- cut/copy/paste now work directly into text boxes on all platforms
- [declare] and [import] now sorted out for loading, much work needs to be done before there namespace support is complete
- "File -> Save As" defaults to the Home folder (~/)
- fixed Cut/Copy/Paste for the Pd window's console
- included pgp_opengl aka 3dp on GNU/Linux and Mac OS X
KNOWN BUGS
- check http://puredata.info/dev/bugtracker before reporting bugs
- Escape, Enter, and Ctrl/Cmd-W don't close the Path and Startup preferences
- pdp_opengl is alpha and will definitely crash Pd
- loading pdp_opengl will crash Pd if X11 is not open before trying to load it
.hc
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I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. - General Smedley Butler
I noticed that in the latest pd-extended on ubuntu, the arrow doesn't change direction when you mouse over a GUI object that is editable. Why so? I found it useful..
-rich
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:59 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@eds.org wrote:
For this release, there has been a lot of work in making the GUI and user experience much more fluid and easy. There is a new visual look that was designed to make patches more readable. Additionally, lots of things have been tweaked to make Pd behave more like a normal app. There has already been a lot of testing on these builds, so it is getting quite close to a final version. (Debian/PowerPC is missing now but will come later)
http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers.html
Here is a partial changelog:
- next visual appearance designed for readability (it can run slower
on machines < 1 GHz)
- default locations for user-installed externals, helpfiles, etc.
GNU/Linux: /usr/share/pd and ~/pd Mac OS X: /Library/Pd and ~/Library/Pd Windows: %ProgramFiles%/Common Files/Pd and %UserProfile%/ Application Data/Pd
lots of standard key bindings added: Enter/Return for OK Escape for Cancel Ctrl/Cmd-W closes all windows on Mac OS X, Cmd-` cycles thru open windows on Mac OS X, Cmd-m minimizes windows Ctrl/Cmd-R raises/lowers Pd window Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-R shrinks/grows Pd window Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-L clears Pd window's text console Ctrl/Cmd-B opens the Help Browser
you can now use "~" in all paths to mean home folder, and on
Windows you can use environment variables, lie %UserProfile% in paths
cut/copy/paste now work directly into text boxes on all platforms
[declare] and [import] now sorted out for loading, much work needs
to be done before there namespace support is complete
"File -> Save As" defaults to the Home folder (~/)
fixed Cut/Copy/Paste for the Pd window's console
included pgp_opengl aka 3dp on GNU/Linux and Mac OS X
KNOWN BUGS
check http://puredata.info/dev/bugtracker before reporting bugs
Escape, Enter, and Ctrl/Cmd-W don't close the Path and Startup
preferences
pdp_opengl is alpha and will definitely crash Pd
loading pdp_opengl will crash Pd if X11 is not open before trying
to load it
.hc
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