Pd patches with compact UIs look bad (example: Automatonism) about plugdata HOT 8 CLOSED

It's getting there!

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Good suggestion! I was already planning to make sure it always displays pd patches correctly, this is a nice test-case I can use for that.

Dynamic patching is currently not supported because PlugData checks the state of the patch whenever the user performs an action. If I can find a convenient hook in pd when the patch changes, (maybe by abusing the "canvas_dirty" flag) I can implement this, I haven't found anything like that yet. I could also set a timer to update the canvas every second or so, but that might have an impact on performance (I'll have to check if it's noticeable difference).

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I think Pd patches look good enough right now, definitely readable and aesthetically pretty nice. Feel free to reopen if you have examples of patches that look bad!

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It looks a bit less bad in the latest version, but still terrible. I'm going to work on it for the version after that!

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+1 here - great project - watching closely. I have some modules in development and would also greatly appreciate gui objects that behave similarly to PD and Purr Data.

hats off - great work so far.

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I also have a few dynamic patching objects in there too! so another +1 for that!

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A few specific problems I'm spotting:

• - Label positions are slightly off
• - Slider track is making text inside the slider ugly (better to use a bar-like slider like pd and purr-data)
• - Dark background colour makes text unreadable, add option to set background colour in statusbar to fix this
• - VU Meter is too large

I think that fixing those would help a lot already, let me know if you spot any more problems!

For dynamic patching, I'm still looking for a nice way to implement it where I get a callback from pd every time the patch changes. If I can't figure that out, I could add an "auto update" feature in the settings, where you can set your own timer to check the patch for changes. I don't want to enable this by default because it will increase the CPU use quite a bit.

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Amazing! Thank you very much!

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