1 Sep
2013
1 Sep
'13
7:53 a.m.
There's an old method to create a remote GUI for PD,
that uses wxWindows and communicate through sockets.
It's not a replacement GUI, but it helps to create front-ends:
http://crca.ucsd.edu/~jsarlo/gripd/
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Marc
Sun, 01 Sep 2013 12:14:35 +0800,
Simon Wise <simonzwise(a)gmail.com> a écrit :
On 01/09/13 03:26, Heikki Ketoharju wrote:
Hi everyone!
I don't know if this should be asked in LAD, but I'm fed up with
Pure Data's own gui components, and would like to develop my own
gui with something else (GTK? QT?). I don't have earlier experience
with any UI toolkit, so I don't have any favourites. What is
easiest approach to custom gui development with PD?
I need something like list boxes and buttons with custom text.
Nothing too special.
You have some choices:
1/ use whatever toolkit you prefer to build your GUI app, and send
messages to PD over a socket. Pd is a language, you don't need to use
the GUI parts of it at all ... it has very mature ways of listening
to input of all sorts.
2/ ditto, but send osc or midi instead of native pd messages
3/ ditto, but use real hardware interfaces rather than the somewhat
limited ascii - mouse - screen interface of most toolkits.
4/ use libpd to give access to lots of PD from within the GUI
application you are building
5/ look at droid party for a project that provides another GUI
method, using libpd internally, for making interfaces on Android (and
iOS) devices.
http://droidparty.net/
All these have advantages, but of course they all involve more work
than just using the GUI elements built into the language.
Simon