I may have spoke too soon, but I found the answer to alpha here:
Still trying to figure out how the background colour works (can't make it go by copying the patch in the screenshot), but the object colouring came from Hans' themer.pd patch - can't find the original email tho:(
cheers dafydd
Phil Stone wrote:
Care to let me in on the secret? I was messing with it at lunch, and couldn't for the life of me figure out how to change the background color of an object.
Phil
Dafydd Hughes wrote:
Forget it. I was indeed missing what was right in front of me.
Dafydd Hughes wrote:
Hey Hans
I'm _dying_to try this, but can't figure out how to access it. Are there new commands for the themer patch? Or am I (like usual) just missing what's right in front of me?
cheers dafydd
Jerome Tuncer wrote:
In my opinion, this is not _stupid_ GUI tricks at all...
Being asked on the differences between Pd and Max/MSP, how many times have I answered starting with "The GUI in pd isn't really as cool and smart as it is in Max/MSP but the DSP capabilities are in the end very similar".
My answer to the lack of GUI elegance is very often a salad of overlaying [cnv]'s to make patches look more attractive and thus very often more readable.
This kind of effort is not stupid, it is great GUI improvement in my opinion.
++
J?
Another off-thread thing : I'm really looking forward to the day pd will not suffer that much from its GUI implementation : simple slider or table visualization/monitoring sometimes being the main reason for a ultra complex DSP patch to bo so heavy on the computer/resources ! (-:
Hans-Christoph Steiner a ?crit :
Ok, all this Tcl/Tk has started to rot my brain, so here are some
stupid GUI tricks:http://eds.org/~hans/pdsketch/stupidguitricks.png
- change patch background colors in a patch!
- make your patches transparent!
- use lots of Tcl/Tk config options!
Works on my machine :D and hopefully tomorrow's auto-builds...
http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/2007-11-08/
(if that link does work, it's not there yet)
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