cheers man, this is what I was looking for!!

-----Original Message----- From: derek holzer [mailto:derek@x-i.net] Sent: 26 March 2004 12:58 To: Adrian deCleir; PD-list Subject: Re: [PD] a nice interface

Adrian,

a few suggestions:

1. Look into the Graph-on-Parent feature. It's in the HTML

documentation, I beleive. Frank Barknecht is doing a lot with GoP for his RRADical PD patches, like this one:

http://footils.org/cgi-bin/cms/?show_article=18

Overview of RRAD patches here: http://pure-data.iem.at/community/projects/rradical/patches/

2. Use canvases as nice backgrounds, and exploit the sends and recieves

of the GUI objects. An example of this would be my Particle Chamber abstraction:

[screenshot] http://pure-data.iem.at/Members/derek/screenshot.png [download] http://pure-data.iem.at/Members/derek/Particlechamber.zip/view

good luck, d.

Adrian deCleir wrote:

hi ive been at pd for a small while now but Ive never looked at the interface side of things, I have a project for and my programme is nearly done, only problem is it looks horrible for a non pd user, Does anyone where I can start looking at how to apply a good interface,as

in

what objects to start lookinga at?(not graphics like gem) Im talking about just applying colours or making a message box look at bit better?nothing extreme cheers for any help