Hello Alex,
Alexandre Quessy a écrit :
Now, we'll change a few more things, and make it (finally) part of pd-extended. Don't hesitate to suggest a better suffix than "_" for the abstractions that provide a Graph-on-parent GUI, as we would like to change for a better one, if one exists. (maybe "$". "|", or "+", such as in "rgb$" or "rgb+" ?) Also, feel free to suggest some of your abstractions to be part of this.
Two suggestions, using a familiar prefix might help for finding the good kind of abs, so 'x' might be a good prefix for graphical related patches, but the 'interface' is not involved by the 'x' prefix so 'gui' could simply give informations about interfacing, and using something like myabs-gui like it is done for help files, and would ease even more the finding of the abs function through the name, and, this naming would also help I believe, for having a 'gui function' with right click magiks on a patch, almost like it is done with help files (the difference is that this right click option would have to appear with clicking inside the patch), maybe it won't be usefull, may be it would...In fact it seems obvious to me that if some patch require an interface for being controlled, the minimum would be about providing the interface with it. Although it seem also obvious that one gui could control different kinds of dsp abstractions, so having a different gui for each dsp abs would not be the best choice, and make the task of interfacing (for both developper and user) not necessarily more complicated, but tiresome. PatCo.