On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:44 AM, red honki pdintw@gmail.com wrote:
hi, i am honki. i do some designs about puredata.
illustration: http://www.flickr.com/photos/honki/sets/72157607652279654/
The designs are cool! I just don't understand how the VU meter is supposed to work - it looks like a spectrograph...
One (hard) aspect of GUI design in case of Pd is that the GUI widgets are provided by Tcl/Tk at the moment, which does not allow for such kind of skinning, afaik. There has been talk, however, about migrating to another GUI toolkit.
You can actually do quite a bit of 'skinning' with Tcl/Tk. And it should be doable totally within a pd-gui-rewrite plugin. Checkout the 'gtklook-plugin.tcl' for a simple example.
.hc
Well that one is a must have indeed, yet it's 'skinning' not skinning. Skinning for me starts with bitmaps or svg being applied.
Andras