Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-10-12 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: There are things in Pd-extended which I did not want to be there, I believe compromise is good sometimes. Everybody does. Most of the time, when you or someone else complains about some weird hack in GridFlow, I've already gone through that

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature? - Feature documentation

2010-10-08 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, João Pais wrote: since some developers don't do their documentation (for whichever reason it may be), would it make sense to create a wiki page where they can delegate that function? for people that don't read code, these features remain in oblivion until someone more or

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature? - Feature documentation

2010-10-08 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Fri, 10/8/10, Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca wrote: From: Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca Subject: Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature? - Feature documentation To: João Pais jmmmp...@googlemail.com Cc: pd-list@iem.at, IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoel...@iem.at Date

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-10-08 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Oct 1, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Pedro Lopes wrote: Then its all about reconnecting pd with these more friendly GUI features. Even if they don't make it to vanilla, why not extended? pd-extended is only for the things Hans wants, and if it's not

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-10-01 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Pedro Lopes wrote: Then its all about reconnecting pd with these more friendly GUI features. Even if they don't make it to vanilla, why not extended? pd-extended is only for the things Hans wants, and if it's not something that is expected to go in vanilla, it better be

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-10-01 Thread Bernardo Barros
A better model for the libs would be just to have packages, spreading the effort between people to maintain each package. And leaving space to develop the pd-core/pd-gut themselves. Don't you think? Maybe I'm missing something. I didn't know about the incompatibility of BSD and GPL. This happens

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-10-01 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Bernardo Barros wrote: A better model for the libs would be just to have packages, spreading the effort between people to maintain each package. And leaving space to develop the pd-core/pd-gut themselves. Don't you think? Maybe I'm missing something. We're not talking

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-09-30 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
On 2010-09-29 19:24, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Max wrote: why complicated metadata if you can already do [inlet~ channel1] and [outlet activity] in an abstraction/subpatch? afaik arguments to those objects currently are ignored, but i do use them sometimes to make me

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-09-30 Thread Max
Am 29.09.2010 um 19:24 schrieb Mathieu Bouchard: On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Max wrote: why complicated metadata if you can already do [inlet~ channel1] and [outlet activity] in an abstraction/subpatch? afaik arguments to those objects currently are ignored, but i do use them sometimes to make me

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature? - Feature documentation

2010-09-30 Thread João Pais
i cannot remember exactly when the inlet-tooltio feature was introduced (i only remember that one implementation was done during the coding sprint at PdCon04; however i think that günter had an earlier implemenation lying around...ah searching the archives i find that günter has done an

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature? - Feature documentation

2010-09-30 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
On 2010-09-30 12:51, João Pais wrote: so this (whatever it is) has been there for 6 years, and no one knew of it? no. it has been posted on the list 7 years ago, so a lot of people new about it. it was discussed and re-implemented at pdcon 2004, and then posted to the patch-tracker; so even

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-09-30 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, João Pais wrote: $1 $2 and $3 of [inlet~] and [outlet~] are already reserved for the resampling feature (specific to DSP). This feature was introduced a few years after the inlet-tooltip feature was introduced. you mean like a block~/switch~ object? never heard of those

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-09-30 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: On 2010-09-29 19:24, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: $1 $2 and $3 of [inlet~] and [outlet~] are already reserved for the resampling feature (specific to DSP). This feature was introduced a few years after the inlet-tooltip feature was introduced. quite

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-09-30 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Pedro Lopes wrote: About: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1056914group_id=55736atid=478072 I did not get exactly what this feature was about, I read the comments and overall description, but something slipped, could you enlighten? It's the same

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-09-30 Thread Pedro Lopes
tooltips is the name for transient text that appears over a GUI to help the user (as a reminder, for example). It usually is triggered by mouse-over. Thanks for the enlightenment Mathieu :) http://artengine.ca/desiredata/gallery/find_last_error.png Very nice.

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-09-29 Thread João Pais
btw, this is exactly what the people at thought Pd (and similar programs) didn't do that well, and they programmed it all in. if you look at that program, it has lots of examples of small stuff that makes the experience a bit more pleasurable. In case someone is interested in putting

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-09-29 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Pedro Lopes wrote: I just remembered a feature* one could have in the future (it relates to various threads and interesting discussions we had here): - When rolling the mouse over a outlet of an abstraction it could tell what that was. (useful for those crazy objects with

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-09-29 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, João Pais wrote: In case someone is interested in putting this in, I would also suggest that some metadata is created, so that even abstractions etc could make use of this with help comments, etc. It's easy to think about the features that you'd like to put in, and it's

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-09-29 Thread Max
Am 29.09.2010 um 10:24 schrieb João Pais: In case someone is interested in putting this in, I would also suggest that some metadata is created, so that even abstractions etc could make use of this with help comments, etc. why complicated metadata if you can already do [inlet~ channel1] and

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-09-29 Thread Pedro Lopes
I know what you mean Mathieu, this was just a proposal. This metadata issues has been brought up several times since I read the list. It has serious impact with pd's own structure and obviously it has to be a conceptual issue discussed and approved by Miller and all developers I guess. About:

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-09-29 Thread João Pais
why complicated metadata if you can already do [inlet~ channel1] and [outlet activity] in an abstraction/subpatch? afaik arguments to those objects currently are ignored, but i do use them sometimes to make me remember their function. several reasons: - unless you want a really big box

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-09-29 Thread Pedro Lopes
why complicated metadata if you can already do [inlet~ channel1] and [outlet activity] in an abstraction/subpatch? hum.. I didn't knew. Although I agree metadata would simplify the job in many ways (some mentioned by João in the last email) this is indeed a nice feature, but It lacks the mouse

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-09-29 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Max wrote: why complicated metadata if you can already do [inlet~ channel1] and [outlet activity] in an abstraction/subpatch? afaik arguments to those objects currently are ignored, but i do use them sometimes to make me remember their function. $1 $2 and $3 of [inlet~]

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-09-29 Thread João Pais
why complicated metadata if you can already do [inlet~ channel1] and [outlet activity] in an abstraction/subpatch? afaik arguments to those objects currently are ignored, but i do use them sometimes to make me remember their function. $1 $2 and $3 of [inlet~] and [outlet~] are already reserved

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-09-29 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Wed, 9/29/10, João Pais jmmmp...@googlemail.com wrote: From: João Pais jmmmp...@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature? To: Max abonneme...@revolwear.com, Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca Cc: PD List pd-list@iem.at Date: Wednesday, September 29

Re: [PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-09-29 Thread Bernardo Barros
why not having a separate git branch(es) that remains compatible and pulls from vanilla-pd? then some people can try things out there and at the same time it can be tested. 2010/9/29 Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca: On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, João Pais wrote: In case someone is interested in

[PD] [out-of-the-blue] a neat GUI feature?

2010-09-28 Thread Pedro Lopes
I just remembered a feature* one could have in the future (it relates to various threads and interesting discussions we had here): - When rolling the mouse over a outlet of an abstraction it could tell what that was. (useful for those crazy objects with n-th outs) How could he tell what that