Effective GUI elements are crucial for making a responsive music tool. Pd has only a few basic GUI objects, but in the course of time I've found methods to produce more advanced GUI's. For example, a numbox which scrolls in both directions (horizontally and vertically). Or [selector], a fancy radiobutton. An xy-pad with multiple controls, and a beat indicator with built-in BPM tap key. Graphically, it is all made up from the native IEM guis in Pd, but [cyclone/MouseState] is mostly used for their operation.

See attached gui-extended.zip for a small collection. With some patience, you don't need MaxMsp for it's slick GUI's at all!

Katja

Edit: an updated version (with a bug-fix) is in post #6

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/gui-extended.zip

great!

I just found one or two bugs..
Concerning the "scrollbox". If the displayed number is negative and is being clicked it makes a one-click-stop at "0"... So it doesn't change for one click at zero.
And if you drag a positive number to zero and release the button while still being on the field it automatically jumps to one instead of remaining at zero. Seems only to occur with decreasing numbers.

Flipp, thanks for reporting bugs. I noticed it today as well when using [wrapbox] in a patch.

One of the bugs (where a [scroll-box] incremented by one after scrolling) is fixed. The other bug (where you have to click the number zero twice to increment it) is inherent to the round-towards-zero principle. Negative numbers round upwards to zero and positive numbers round downwards to zero. And because the mouse-events are scaled and integrated as floats, the interval around zero is twice as large as the other intervals between ints. You can also notice it when scrolling through the numbers.

Updated version attached.

Katja

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/gui-extended-v2.zip

Excellent work, Katja! I love the BPM/tempo detection. Kudos.

thanks i will use it : )

My take on the BPM patch.

Ricky

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/rg.beatcounter.pd

I love this, thank you!

great stuff, that's inspiring! thanks for sharing!

Great work, thanks for sharing katjav.