- alt-[key] doesn't work on menus? alt-f should make file menu open
Does that work on other versions of Pd?
the only other version I have is vanilla 0.42-5. guess what, it doesn't
work as well. probably it never did.
would it be part of the job now to make it work?
- text editor doesn't work, is he already gone? data properties' editor
works.
It just needs to be implemented. Any volunteers? I've never used it so
I don't know what its supposed to do. Or really, the better approach
IMHO is to make the in-place editing good enough so you don't need the
Text Editor.
actually I never used the text editor, and don't know if anyone did (the
data structures editor yes, but that's independent). maybe it's better
just to take it out?
- remembered something that I sugested already: what about return closes
an object while typing? eliminates the need for an extra click.
- how about also making the line breaks on comments to work, would it go
into this work batch?
- in the past I asked for pd to save window position also when windows
are saved on a 2nd screen (windows were always displayed on the 1st screen). today this backfired, as while working with 1 screen (on a "2-screen" patch) not all windows of the patch were visible. canvas values were "#N canvas 1422 54" on pd file. While I salute the possibilty of having windows automatically appear on multiple screens, how about also making sure that they appear only in 1 screen of there aren't any more? E.g. if this window's X value is 1422 and my x resolution is 1400, probably subtracting the screen resolution of the window value should be enough. can tcl/tk get these elements? Another representation of what I meant: if canvasres >= screenres, then canvasres=canvasres-screenres (apply to both x and y)
I don't have a multi-monitor setup, so I can't test this. Ideally you'd
edit the code to get it working properly. It should be pretty
straightforward, the code in question is in pdtk_canvas.tcl in the proc
called 'pdtk_canvas_new'. You can see it gets the 'geometry' from Pd as
an argument to the proc, and is then set using "wm geometry $mytoplevel
$geometry" If you just do the math before running the 'wm geometry' and
put the right values into $geometry, then 'wm geometry' should do the
right thing.
the problem is that the only language I can program in is Pd. C and others
I don't really know how to do anything.
It should be very easy to test for you, in case you want to: just open
your pd file in a text editor, locate any line that defines a windows -
format "#N canvas 914 187 335 381 gui 0;", being "gui" the window name -,
and add 1000 or something to the first number (x position). If you can't
see it when you open the patch in pd, it means it's still not ok.
- I get the impression that redrawing of data structures with toggle in
the inlet (i.e. visible/invisible) is slower now. maybe just an impression? but anyway, is it possible to enhance this, is the gui work related with that?
Do you have an example patch?
I have a complicated patch with some structures in it, I can send to it
you later. but I guess any patch will do - including your solitude.
- I use the [hcs/sys_gui] command to make my own color scheme (white is
too agressive) and to place the pd window on a corner (wm geometry).
These don't work now, are they going to be obsolete, or they have to adapt to the new tcl code?They should work fine, but the color scheme variables are part of Pd- extended, this is still Pd-vanilla. I think you'd be better off porting
your color scheme to a Tcl plugin. Its not hard, plus you can do a lot
more with it.
sorry, but I can't understand what "you can drop them into pd/startup"
means. I see no folder or file with that name here.
- x and y, x only + y only have all the same result. but I think that
was the normal behaviour before anyway (never used this feature)
I've never used it either, I think it might be really old cruft...
I would ask the higher powers (miller/iem people) and get rid of it.
- Help->About: Pd doesn't work (so I can't tell exactly which version it
is)
Yeah... not implemented yet... it tells you the version at startup in
the Pd window.
Pd version 0.43-0devel-20091008, in case it's important to know.
Anything else specific you want to be checked, Hans?
It would be great if you can use it for daily use, and report issues.
I'm starting a project where I will be doing the same thing. That's
where we will really discover bugs and issues.
should be doing that from tomorrow, maybe. doesn't the ubuntu version
comes with the pd-ext material, like the windows one?