Rich E wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I was just thinking, as I noticed that Hans made it where Apple+, opens the
> preferences menu on OS X (as does every other native-mac app), why not group
> all the preferences in one dialog, with sub dialogs?  This is how other apps
> I use on OS X behave and I find it convenient.  Besides, if you save the
> settings, all of the settings get dumped to the preferences file, no?  Why
> not have them all in the same dialog, openable by a hotkey.

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:14 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at> wrote:

The only reason its not like that is because someone hasn't done the
work.  I'd love to be able to include that work in pd-gui-rewrite.  Be
aware, it'll probably require some weirdness, because of the nature of
the messages that the pref panels send to 'pd'.  But I don't think it
would be too hard.

One downside is that it you couldn't use Tcl/Tk 8.5 if you want it to be
included in Pd-vanilla.  But I am planning on switching Pd-extended 0.43
to Tcl/Tk 8.5 and above, since 8.5 adds a lot of very useful GUI stuff.

.hc

Let me think a bit forward on this... when you say a dialog and sub dialogs, do you mean a dialog with multiple tabs (that is what i see to be popular in practice) or literally many modals available from one central modal?
I'd say tabs make the most sense, but i see that some of the dialogs are produced by the C
side not Tcl/Tk (are they?) in which case it will not be easy to stuff them into the tabs.
I'm asking because i would be willing to code this up.