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/

gui:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/honki/4522863658/

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.

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