My 2 cents: baby, bathwater. The IME GUIs may not be *perfect* but they, so far, have been *good enough*. I am always fearful of trying to design & implement the "one *whatever* to rule them all" as making something too generic ends up being more complicated then the simplest approach, with some amount of code sharing to avoid redundancy. (That being said, I am only reacting and maybe you have something in mind which deals with this.)
I think we can consider ways to overhaul the existing ones for sure. For instance, I have a balanced approach to implementing the GUIs in Pdparty using Apple frameworks using single-inheritance OO: https://github.com/danomatika/PdParty/tree/master/src/gui There is a Widget class which everything else inherits from. Then shared code within IEMWidget class which Bang, Slider, etc use. I don't think this is far off from the recent refactors in the IEM widget code base over the last years. > On Mar 15, 2024, at 12:00 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 14:36:50 +0100 > From: Christof Ressi <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PD-dev] release April? > Message-ID: <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > >> Anyway, I've been holding off on introducing yet one more ad-hoc GUI >> device until I (or someone :) can make a properly unified GUI for >> numerical controls. > Is this realistic? And does it really warrant withholding a proper knob > UI for another couple of years (or even forever)? > > A knob would not prevent a "unified numerical control" in the future. > Yes, it would be one more legacy object to deal with, but does it really > matter at this point? It's not like we're constantly adding new UI > elements. The last time was probably 20 years ago :) I guess if Thomas > Musil made one back in the day, we would have it anyway. > > A more general question: what would the advantage of such a "unified" > GUI object, in particular for the user? I guess the idea is that you can > easily turn any numeric GUI element into another? > > Cheers, > > Christof -------- Dan Wilcox danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/> robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/>
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