Re: [PD] zenity plugin for Pd 0.43 WAS: magicglass WAS: call for testers for L2Ork iteration of pd-extended (based on 0.42.x branch)

Hey Andras, this is great! My only request is: can we call them "GUI
plugins"? "startup plugins" sounds too vague for me. Also, here's a
bit more documentation:

http://puredata.info/docs/PdGuiPluginsAPI

Now I'm thinking we should start a "guiplugins" wiki folder section in
the doc wiki, so like:

http://puredata.info/docs/guiplugins (this would be your page, also
be called FrontPage) http://puredata.info/docs/guiplugins/GuiPluginsAPI http://puredata.info/docs/guiplugins/ExamplePlugins

How does that sound?

.hc

On Nov 29, 2010, at 3:29 PM, András Murányi wrote:

I have started a Wiki page on this: http://puredata.info/docs/developer/StartupPlugins I'll expand it later today.

Andras

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Lorenzo Sutton lsutton@libero.it
wrote: [this was intended for the list by I sent it to Hans only by mistake

• resending]

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: zenity plugin for Pd 0.43 WAS: magicglass WAS: call for
testers for L2Ork iteration of pd-extended (based on 0.42.x branch) From: Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at To: Lorenzo Sutton lsutton@libero.it CC: pd-list@iem.at Date: 11/28/2010 02:00 AM

On Nov 25, 2010, at 6:27 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:

(and a random aside, perhaps you'd be interested in getting Pd to use the GTK open panel? I've always hated the Tcl/Tk one).

How would one go about doing this?

I believe that gnocl is the thing that you are looking for:

http://wiki.tcl.tk/5151 Actually a really 'quick and dirty' solution would be to call zenity
1 from within the tk.. Which IMHO is better than the Tk file
opener.. Attached a version of pd.tk (0.42.5-extended-rc5 linux)
which will try touse zenity for open, falling back to Tk if zeniy is
not found (sorry my tcl is really really rusty :-)

Lorenzo.

That would make a great GUI plugin for Pd 0.43. Basically the
plugin would just override pdtk_openpanel and pdtk_savepanel (now in
pd/tcl/wheredoesthisgo.tcl). Just 'rename' the existing ones in
your plugin, then create your own procs with the same names.

.hc The GUI plugin thing in 0.43 is pretty new to me.. Anything I can
read to learn about it?

This apporach (that's why 'quick and dirty') does have various
limitations that I think couldn't be solved:

• No way to have 'filetype' filters (I haven't seen a way to have

ore than one with zenity)

• Doesn't remember last opened directory (but maybe taht could be

handled by the tk script)

• Not exactly the 'standard' gnome open dialogue.

Of course one could create two small independent gtk+ (or whatever
gui) apps (executables) that let you select file in a "natve" look
and feel spit a string out a string like zenity which is easily
ingested y tk. I'm not sure how this could be made cross platform
though.

Lorenzo.

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