On 07/30/2013 01:22 PM, Dan Wilcox wrote:
Two things from me:

* missing a "Pd-extended" theme aka grey filled boxes

Ah yes, forgot that one.


* the Apple interface guidelines generally frown on "Apply" buttons like the "Connect" button in the audio/midi dialogs. The expected behavior is that you also connect when you select the device in the drop down, the idea being you don't require 2 steps. At least that's how I would do it. It's a niggle, but thought I'd throw it in.

But then what about the blocksize, samplerate, and callbacks?  If those don't immediately update then the user would have to switch devs to get them to update.  If they immediately update then the user would need to press <tab> or click somewhere to make the text entry lose focus.  Both of those seem problematic, but if there's an Apple-like HIG solution I'll try to implement it.

-Jonathan


Oh and in case my poorly formatted last email didn't get through, your donations page is down ...

On Jul 30, 2013, at 6:00 AM, pd-list-request@iem.at wrote:

From: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [PD] Reverse Kickstarter Update
Date: July 29, 2013 9:47:15 PM EDT
To: pd-list@iem.at


Ok, with Dan's help I've now got a quick demo of the dialog preferences for OSX (intel):
http://puredata.info/Members/jancsika/Pd-with-prefs-0.43.zip/view?searchterm=pd%20with%20prefs

Turns out the ability to build for ppc arch is no longer supported in recent versions of XCode (if I understand it correctly).

I guess I built without support for any other audio APIs, so the dropdown is permanently empty which is a little weird.  Also you need at least tcl/tk 8.5 on your system.  But other than that it should work.

If you try it out then me some feedback on the preferences dialog.

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Dan Wilcox
@danomatika