On Oct 25, 2011, at 9:47 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 18:36 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Pd vanilla still has different box sizes on different platforms, if I remember correctly, therefore the sizes will have to change somewhere.
I made a little test patch and took screenshots [1]. On three operating systems (Mac OS 10.6.4, Ubuntu 10.04, Windows 7) I tested Pd-extended-0.43.1 (from autobuilds) and Pd-0.43.1test4 (from Miller's site).
The results are contrary to what you are saying. For Pd-0.43.1test4 the box sizes are consistent across all tested platforms. For Pd-extended-0.43.1 the number, symbol, message and object boxes are 2 px less tall on Windows than on the other platforms. Due to this, only on Windows number and symbol boxes have the same height in Pd-vanilla and Pd-extended (though message and object boxes are 2px smaller in Pd-extended than in Pd-vanilla).
On the other two platforms, Ubuntu 10.04 and OS X, number and symbol boxes are 2 px taller in Pd-extended than in Pd-vanilla.
The hsliders, vsliders and cnvs have the exact same dimensions in every tested combination. Also is the width of number, symbol, message and object boxes consistent across all tested platforms and flavors.
I tried to get these changes into vanilla, but I guess Miller didn't want them.
Currently, it looks like they are not necessary since the situation looks good for Pd-vanilla.
I've already spent a lot of time on it, so I've moved on since it works in Pd-extended. There should be a whole history of the discussion on pd-dev, i.e. the details of the issues. I don't remember them, I'm sure it was some annoying technical details.
Since only Pd-extended is not consistent across platforms, would that be reason enough to reconsider adapting Pd-extended to the symbol and number box height of Pd-vanilla?
Roman
Here's my contribution, a screenshot of Pd-extended 0.42.5 on Mac OS X 10.5.8, which matches the Pd-extended 0.43 Mac OS X and GNU/Linux screenshots. So time to fix Windows...
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