Well, the current PD Gui stuff is not adequate for pro performance situations as far as I'm concerned. Even a small number of Gui elements visible will totally destroy the audio and cause severe dropouts, in my personal experience. And from what I hear this may be true on more than one OS...
So there MUST be a better way, maybe GriPD is not it though. All I know is, I don't have these problems with Ableton and Reaktor even with tons of stuff in the GUI's... Whereas currently my approach to PD is that one should use as little GUI as possible, or it won't run.
~David
Using graph-of-parent is less complicated and more efficient. With adding toxy/widget, a pd interface could even blow a professional user interface, but it requires some skills in tcl scripting, or just *sarcastic mode* brain cells for figuring out how to use tcl-tk widgets for using the work made by ix and MiXed. *end of sarcastic mode*, salutations, Patco.