I think I’ve basically got it working well for dialog_gatom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZCjgIFMc9g

The entry widgets now unbind the enter key from closing the dialog when they receive focus and then rebind it after they lose it. This allows for editing and tabbing through all the entry boxes. Also, I enabled activation of the OK button when the dialog box will close on Enter to make this interchange much more obvious. Consequently, I removed the Cancel button form the focus list since it’s activated on the Escape key anyway (and OSX does keyboard button pressed via Spacebar anyway).

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On Dec 3, 2015, at 4:58 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika@gmail.com> wrote:

Ok, I have it working in the canvas dialog.

I basically unbind KeyPress_Enter from closing the dialog and then bind ::dialog_canvas::apply to Return in all the entry boxes as well as the equivalent to the checkbuttons. This is only enabled for OSX, so other platforms are untouched. 

It’s pretty nice, actually, since you can just tab to things and make updates with the keyboard only. One issue is that the buttons curreently don’t display a focus highlight. I’ll look into that and updating the other dialogs.


On Dec 3, 2015, at 2:03 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika@gmail.com> wrote:

“switch to linux” … real helpful :P


The curent situation is a bit half-way as the button was removed to match the Apple Human Interface Guidelines (aka persistent changes are saved by default, hence no “Apply” button). The problem is that updates are not applied until *after* the dialog is closed. This means making small GOP changes, for instance, is a pain in the ass since you have to keep opening and closing the dialog. IMO this works *against* the HIG as is far worse than simply having a button.

There are two solutions:

1. simply bring back the Apply button on OSX, I did this on my version of Vanilla by commenting out some if statements in the tcl code

2. add apply code in the tcl to update the canvas/gui object whenever changes are applied to any text box in the dialog

I’ll look into option 2 as it’s really the best solution.


On Dec 3, 2015, at 10:11 AM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

From: IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig@iem.at>
Date: December 3, 2015 at 4:57:04 AM MST
Subject: Re: [PD] Apply button missing from properties in 0.46.7


On 2015-12-03 12:41, Si Mills wrote:
Hi

Is the omission of the Apply btn in the properties dialogues (present in
Pd-extended) a feature of latest vanilla build or a bug?

a feature¹.

http://lists.puredata.info/namazu/pd-list/namazu.cgi?query=apply+button

gsdfmt
IOhannes

¹ that should go away. in the meantime you could switch to linux where
there *is* an apply button.