On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
andychen5018 wrote:
Hi, everyone,
Is it possible for PD object to generate a pop-up window to input arguments upon it's creation? I just think that having a long list of arguments when instantiating an object is cubersome and less clear. People might not even know that they can have arguments for the object. With pop-up window, it will be a reminder for people to put in arguments. And it will be also more clear to show what the arguments are for.
If anyone has some ideas of how to do that, please help me.
thx
Andy Chen
in pd, windows are handled by tcl/tk, and you would have to write tk-code to have pop-up windows. maybe you should look at the g_7_guis.* files
..tcl/tk-code is said to be painful for hackers (but i have never tried myself)
Well, my suggestion to be able to extend user friendliness would be to define a high level propertiy dialog in the tcl/tk code, that would make it possible to use just one function of tcl tk for property input, and it would be easy to port that to other GUI toolkits.
As I see it properties and instantiation arguments are the same, so having one common interface for them would be a good idea.
- its easy to implement
- we would get rid of ugly tcl/tk code piping
- we would have property dialogs for every object that has some states to
be set.
The problems are:
- we have to take care that object that change their number of inlets,
outlets according to some creation argument can do that even after instantiation
Guenter