TkWidget

To make for better GUI building in Pd, this library is an effort to make Pd objects for all of the standard Tk widgets, and provide access to as many configuration options as possible from within Pd following the Tk messages so that the Tcl/Tk docs apply easily.

button

your standard button, as in OK Cancel

canvas

a Tk canvas for drawing random stuff on

checkbutton

a little checkbox with text next to it

cursor

get data from and change the look of the mouse cursor

entry

a single line textfield for entering text

image

a widget for displaying GIF and PNM images

label

a place to display texts as labels

listbox

a scrollable box with a selectable list of things

message

pops up a lovely OK message box

popupmenu

the combination of a menubutton and a menu to make a popup menu

radiobutton

a set of radio buttons (only one can be selected at a time)

rectangle

a blank area in the shape of a rectangle

scale

basically a general purpose slider

scrollbar

a scrollbar, like the one on the edge of this window

spinbox

a turnable knob-like thingy

text

a multi-purpose text editing widget

tk_chooseColor

popup a window for choosing colors

tk_messageBox

popup a window to ask a question

common functions

draw_nlets()/erase_nlets()

for the inlets and outlets

draw_handle()/erase_handle()

for the resize handle when selected in edit mode

draw_scrollbar()/erase_scrollbar()

to draw a scrollbar on widgets that need it (text, listbox, ...)

tkwidget_option()

execute a Tk option on the current widget

tkwidget_save()

have a optionc/optionv list of Tk option names, and this function goes thru them all and saves them

functionality ideas

• double-clicking in edit mode makes box revert to text in a box, like pddplink

• handle to resize like Scope~

• turn blue when selected in edit mode

• [focus $1( message to control focus without mouse clicks

• [bind( message to allow special behaviors from bind events

• emoticon support in [text]? via embedded images

• Ctrl-f find support in text boxes

• savefn uses options data straight from Tk widget (i.e. button cget height)

• "state query" command to send all current properties' values to pd (and for one, make jmmmp/gui-edit work better)

print selction --errordeveloper, Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:10:19 +0100

could be good to be able to do this ..

lovely --eni, Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:51:34 +0100

these are awesome ideas and lets us make real applications with puredata. one thing i found not very intuitive is "double-clicking in edit mode makes box revert to text in a box". how about just edit mode (without double clickin) makes box revert to text in a box?