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 :
- start Pd with all colors setup, not after changing modes two
times (strange behavior on the colors plugin).
- add colors to distinguish between control & audio
inlets/outlets. (like Pd-extended). Great feature for
beginners. Also gemlist types would be nice.
- add color to dashed rectangles when appears the error
"couldn't create" (like Pd-extended)
- 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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Jérôme Abel
http://jeromeabel.net
http://reso-nance.org
