I mentioned them a week or two ago in another thread; documents in OS X usually have a little icon in the titlebar that represents the file being edited; you can drag it to get a reference to the file (for copying or opening in another application; for Pd files that's awesome for dragging to your text editor for editing), or you can right click it to get a context menu with the parent folders up to the root (great as a "reveal in finder" function).
I attached a patch that should theoretically add support for them as well as properly showing the "modified" state consistently with the rest of OS X apps (which dims the proxy icon and adds a dot in the close button). But I haven't been able to get it to work with Pd Vanilla.
I added this to pdtk_canvas_new in my Pd-extended pdtk with static arguments and the feature does work, so maybe you can try the patch (my build environment still isn't working): wm attributes $name -modified 0 -titlepath {/Users/LukeIannini/PureData/sft/sft.structhausen.pd} (replace the path with an actual file on your machine of course)
Cheers Luke
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@eds.org wrote:
Oops, sorry, I didn't realize that you were working on it. You still get credit for the idea :). I think the pdpedia context menu link is still worth doing.
What are proxy icons?
.hc
On Apr 24, 2008, at 8:24 PM, Luke Iannini (pd) wrote:
Arr, I finished this two days ago and got caught up with troubles recompiling Pd. Ah well, glad it is done : ). Thanks for doing it. On the upside, I discovered how to get OS X proxy icons working in the process, so I'll still have something to contribute Cheers Luke
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@eds.org wrote:
Hey all,
I just checked in code to make the Pdpedia link in the Help menu try to find the object name if you are looking at a help patch. If the help patch is the topmost window, it'll use that object name when it opens the pdpedia and take you directly to that page. Should be in tomorrow's builds.
This got me thinking that there should be a Pdpedia link in the popup menu that currently has Help, Properties, and Open in it...
.hc
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