On Sep 12, 2009, at 3:22 PM, András Murányi wrote:
It looks so nice on the Mac...! ;o)
It's a pity it looks way less 21th Century here on Hardy... fyi I have attached the screenshot.
Make you are are running Tcl/Tk 8.5 and it'll look much better. Install tcl8.5 and tk8.5, then run:
"update-alternatives --config wish" and choose wish8.5. Then Pd will use the much improved Wish 8.5.
I have also mocked up a version with my ideas (which are based on my rather limited knowledge of Pd). Please take a look at it.
Did you mock it up in Tcl?
- Afaik the IN/OUT meters are for the DSP so I would group them with the DSP switch.
Makes sense.
- I would omit the IN/OUT meter switch. Can we? Or is this a CPU-hog?
I think its useful just to be able to have less distractions.
- I would suggest having some kind of MIDI IN/OUT LEDs... which could also serve as switches in case you want to suspend MIDI reception or transmission. In my graphics they are just simple switches but I'm not sure it is possible to 'blink' those switches. If not, then we could have separate switches and LEDs.
That also sounds useful for those who use MIDI. 'pd' is not currently sending 'pd-gui' that info tho.
- A LOAD meter. Is this a CPU hog? If not, can we have it on the Pd window? (It is quite hidden under the Media menu, imho also because Media is a quite fuzzy name.)
That's a nice idea. It would require writing the Tcl code to get the load from the OS, but that's probably easy.
- Console hide, clear. Let's try to have it somewhere right above the console!
A clear button is ok, it is on the File menu. As for hide, I think its easier to just have window resizing work well. With the pdwindow in pd-gui-rewrite, you can manually resize it down to just the metters/buttons.
.hc
Sorry the mockup is not very well worked out - I just wanted to bring up these quick ideas... ;o)
Andras
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
<hans@at.or.at> wrote:
There is a small collection of some screenshots of the new GUI in action. Add anything you think is worth documenting:
http://puredata.info/dev/PdGuiRewriteScreenshots
.hc
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