[ pure-data-Patches-3234958 ] add gui preferences system via conf files - Pd-dev

24 Mar 2011


      Patches item #3234958, was opened at 2011-03-22 12:11
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Category: puredata
Group: feature
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: gusano (elgusanorojo)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: add gui preferences system via conf files
Initial Comment:
this patch adds a gui-preferences system, right now for recent files only.
recently opened files are written in the user-app-config directory (i.e. ~/.config/pure-data/recentfiles.conf on linux) and read when pd launches.
this was tested on linux and osx only (I don't have access to a win32 machine).
see the following related threads:
http://www.mail-archive.com/pd-dev@iem.at/msg09330.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/pd-dev@iem.at/msg09351.html
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Comment By: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave)
Date: 2011-03-24 00:44
Message:
This is looking good, I just have a couple comments:
- I think you should manually edit pkgIndex.tcl.  the script made a bunch
of changes, that are not really relevant and might affect other things. 
You just need to add a single line for pd_guiprefs.tcl
- preferences on Mac OS X are stored in ~/Library/Preferences rather than
~/Library/Application Support/pure-data.  Ideally, this patch would also
use the terminal tool 'defaults read' and 'defaults write' to create a
proper Mac OS X .plist preferences file.  Its not hard to do, you can see
how Pd currently does it in pd/src/s_file.c.  Windows needs to use the
registry, that's even easier because Tcl has the built -in 'registry'
command.
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