Below is relevant excerpt that IMHO is much better scrolling algorithm. It has been tested only on Linux so far but there is no reason why it should not work on other platforms. Basically, now the whole canvas translates as necessary. Therefore,
1) dragging a single object away from 0 0 coordinates will never spawn a scrollbar (since we don't care how far someone goes away from center--theoretically their whole patch could be at -30000 to -29800 (x1 x2). That said, I am not sure if the thing will crash if you go beyond 1.0e30 either direction but I suspect it will take a long while before you get there :-) 2) scrollbars appear/disappear logically, (e.g. only when two or more objects are far enough from each other not to fit on the visible portion of the canvas) 3) and perhaps most importantly since text (particularly larger text commonly used for iemlib gui elements) generates incorrect reports from the "bbox all" call (e.g. try creating a number2 with a height 80 and notice how you are never able to drag it all the way to the top of the canvas without invoking the Y-axis scrollbar even though your text might be font 10; larger font sizes make things even worse). So now finally I can create compact windows without scrollbars using iemlib objects.
Optionally, if you wish to use hacked pd.tk version (made for pd-extended 0.42.5). You will also have an option to disable scrollbars, menu, alter background color, toggle ontop, and disable resize, *per patcher*. I found this to be also rather useful for GUI creation. Attached with the new pd.tk are supporting abstractions.
Below is relevant code for points 1-3 from the current pd.tk in hope it will find its way into 0.43 gui rewrite.
proc pdtk_canvas_getscroll {name} { global pdtk_canvas_mouseup_name global pdtk_canvas_mouseup_xminval global pdtk_canvas_mouseup_xmaxval global pdtk_canvas_mouseup_yminval global pdtk_canvas_mouseup_ymaxval
#bbox all is not accurate enough #particularly when using large iemlib objects #so we calculate canvas size manually #set size [$name bbox all]
#borrowed from http://wiki.tcl.tk/4844 set x1 1.0e30; set x2 -1.0e30 ; set y1 1.0e30; set y2 -1.0e30 ; foreach item [$name find all] { switch -exact [$name type $item] { "arc" - "line" - "oval" - "polygon" - "rectangle" { set coords [$name coords $item] foreach {x y} $coords { if { $x < $x1 } {set x1 $x} if { $x > $x2 } {set x2 $x} if { $y < $y1 } {set y1 $y} if { $y > $y2 } {set y2 $y} } } } } if {$x1 != 1.0e30} {
set xminval 0 set yminval 0 set xmaxval 100 set ymaxval 20 #set x1 [lindex $size 0] #set x2 [lindex $size 2] #set y1 [lindex $size 1] #set y2 [lindex $size 3]
#pdtk_post "bbox all: $x1 $x2 $y1 $y2\n" #pdtk_post "new bbox all: $xbox1 $xbox2 $ybox1 $ybox2\n"
#these work much better than the ones below #they allow for intelligent translation of the canvas #rather than introducing redundant scrollbars set xminval $x1 set yminval $y1
set xmaxval [expr $x1+($x2-$x1)] set ymaxval [expr $y1+($y2-$y1)]
#if {$x1 < $xminval} {set xminval $x1} #if {$y1 < $yminval} {set yminval $y1}
#if {$x2 > $xmaxval} {set xmaxval $x2} #if {$y2 > $ymaxval} {set ymaxval $y2}
#pdtk_post "$xminval $xmaxval $yminval $ymaxval\n"
set parentname [winfo parent $name] set winwidth [winfo width $parentname] set winheight [winfo height $parentname]
set canvaswidth [ expr {abs($xmaxval-$xminval)} ] set canvasheight [ expr {abs($ymaxval-$yminval)} ] #set canvaswidth [ expr {abs($xminval)+$xmaxval} ] #set canvasheight [ expr {abs($yminval)+$ymaxval} ]
#pdtk_post "$canvaswidth $canvasheight\n"
#pdtk_post "$parentname [$parentname.scroll cget -state]\n" if {$::scroll($parentname) == 1} { #pdtk_post "scroll=yes $winwidth $canvaswidth\n" if {$winwidth > $canvaswidth} {pack forget $parentname.scrollhort} if {$winheight > $canvasheight} {pack forget $parentname.scrollvert} if {$winwidth < $canvaswidth} {pack $parentname.scrollhort -fill x \ -side bottom -before $parentname.c} if {$winheight < $canvasheight} {pack $parentname.scrollvert -fill y \ -side right -before $parentname.c} } if {$pdtk_canvas_mouseup_name != $name || \ $pdtk_canvas_mouseup_xminval != $xminval || \ $pdtk_canvas_mouseup_xmaxval != $xmaxval || \ $pdtk_canvas_mouseup_yminval != $yminval || \ $pdtk_canvas_mouseup_ymaxval != $ymaxval } { set newsize "$xminval $yminval $xmaxval $ymaxval" $name configure -scrollregion $newsize set pdtk_canvas_mouseup_name $name set pdtk_canvas_mouseup_xminval $xminval set pdtk_canvas_mouseup_xmaxval $xmaxval set pdtk_canvas_mouseup_yminval $yminval set pdtk_canvas_mouseup_ymaxval $ymaxval } } pdtk_canvas_checkgeometry [canvastosym $name] }
Best wishes,
Ico