[PD] TCL plugins advices

Hi,

I customed old tcl plugins and I wrote painfully two more here : http://reso-nance.org/public/pd-malinette/tclplugins.zip

• colors edit/action mode
• add the word "edit" or "action" when you change the mode
• menu_tree with own objects
• add your own menu

I would like to have some feedbacks and understand tcltk for Pd and plugin mecanisms.

To improve them and go further, I have some questions :

• *Reference guide*. Is it the main resource about tclplugins : https://puredata.info/docs/guiplugins (+ pd-gui.tcl and other *.tcl files) ?
• *Add text to the interface*. On the mode_label plugin, the behavior is strange, the text is superposed every time. If someone know about it...
• *Colors themes*. I saw two pull requests about adding colors to the interface (https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/196, https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/162). A theme.txt file would be very easy to personnalize, or even better variables stored inside .pdsettings, stored in a second tab. Now, tcl plugins seems to be a good way to achieve that, but I didn't find some tricks : o start Pd with all colors setup, not after changing modes two times (strange behavior on the colors plugin). o add colors to distinguish between control & audio inlets/outlets. (like Pd-extended). Great feature for beginners. Also gemlist types would be nice. o add color to dashed rectangles when appears the error "couldn't create" (like Pd-extended) o the -fill and -activefill arguments on atoms (symbol, number) happened when the mouse is hover the border and the text, not hover the box. It could be really user-friendly (especially for symbol atom) to indicate a box is interactive by changing color of all the box when the mouse is hover. Is there a tcl argument for that ?
• *Auto-completion* *plugin *(https://github.com/gusano/completion-plugin). Very handy, but the plugin does not add objects into canvas with pd048. The author does not have time to maintained it, and I don't see where is the problem. It is a very complex stuff (for me).
• *Add media controllers to the Pd Window*.It could be logic to use the Pd window to hold customs media controllers : audio MASTER volume, pan + Gem dimensions switch + Arduino controller / ... Here a sketch of what it could be : http://reso-nance.org/public/pd-malinette/pd-malinette-interface.svg.png. If someone have some ideas how to implement this.

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