If someone contribute to a really cool, pretty and performance-friendly GUI side for PureData, Max would become pretty much irrelevant now.
2010/9/14 Lorenzo lsutton@libero.it:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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Oh, and instead of [transport] just use a metro with a
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It's also that it's more marketable if they add rather trivial features just so that they can say «Max 5 has more features about time scale !». It's easier than to explain to them that Max doesn't need those features.
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Also, it's more marketable if Max has an object like [textedit] where the user can type multi-line text into a box. It's easier than picking through the Toxy graveyard and learning that you can't send messages to the widget unless its containing canvas is visible, then trying to work with [entry] and having the data you typed in the box disappear because you minimized the window. Then realizing that the whole reason you're looking for an object that corresponds to [textedit] is because you can't resize message boxes (and they don't appear on a gop canvas).
-Jonathan
You could try tkwidgets/text. I really should finish that library. Its close to done, and it'll probably a suite of nice GUI objects, including something like textedit.
.hc
Thinking about guish issues, which always come up in the max vs pd discussions... I lately thought quite a bit about this from reading the discussions on here, experimenting with some 'gui' made in GEM etc. and seeing stuff made with max5...
Actually... I'm more and more thinking that maybe the best approach for "full-fledged" guis for Pd patches is an 'external' approach a la GrIPD... maybe using some standard widget set and maybe facilitating the netsend/receive process. Also exploring newer GUIs, like web-based (AJAX and similar) might be interesting for certain applications?
GrIPD is already a remarkable tool, but imho we should probably explore further a paradigm of Pd as an 'audio engine'? (maybe something remarkable is already out there and I may not be aware of it :)
All these are still open questions: personally I love the pd 'look and feel', but I do see an issue for certain applications and domains and when comparing to, say, max etc.
Discussion welcome :)
Bests, Lorenzo
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