Reply to Drop down menu in vanilla on Sat, 11 Feb 2017 21:02:01 GMT

theblackpeacock — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 21:02:01 GMT

Hey folks, first post on the "new" forum. Stopped hanging around here since the times that I thought a handle like "theblackpeacock" was pretty cool.

Anyways I am digging into the newest version of vanilla after stubbornly sticking with pd-extended for all this time so I have a lot to catch up on. There were a couple of options for pd extended to handle drop down menus, I know that a lot has been added to the most recent vanilla including new objects. Is there now a native GUI object for drop down menus? If not has anyone come up with a creative way to hande this using just vanilla objects? Trying to stick to vanilla wherever I can.

Thank you!

Reply to Drop down menu in vanilla on Sat, 11 Feb 2017 21:41:43 GMT

Monetus — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 21:41:43 GMT

I used an array of symbols in a struct with a drawnumber object to make a symbol slider. If you wanted to avoid the structs, you could indeed use a vslider underneath a canvas to feed indices into a [text get] object.

To make the menu actually popup, you'd have to create an object with a tcl/tk plugin, or make an external.

I played with the idea of making a popup menu in the tcl/tk objects, but I was making an autocomplete plugin, and settled on just drawing into the canvas itself. Lots of cool things you can do with plugins or structs.