Re: looking for a widget like pd's number box

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 19:30 -0700, Rich E wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am a happy user of Miller Puckette's Pure Data (pd) for real-time
> audio processing, but not too happy with the interface, which uses the
> tk toolkit.  So, I am working towards developing a similar, but
> expandable, interface using GTK+.
> 
> I was hoping someone could help decide what I have to do to replicate
> the number box in pd. As far as I can tell from the source, it is
> created from scratch using tcl scripting commands. It consists of a
> number entry area and looks very much like the GtkSpinButton, without
> the arrows on the side.  To change the number with the mouse, you
> click on the number area and drag the mouse upwards or downwards.  You
> can also shift-click for finer precision.  
> 
> Has anyone seen something like this in gtk, or will I have to write
> it?  
> 
> Just trying to stop duplicated work if that would be the case, and at
> the same time attempt to get the advice of gtk users with more
> experience than myself (which isn't much).

i wrote precisely such a thing, but alas in C++ for gtkmm as a derived
type, not as a native GTK widget. it wasn't hard, but its quite a bit
more work in C alone.