[PD-dev] tooltips
IOhannes zmoelnig
zmoelnig at iem.kug.ac.at
Wed Nov 26 08:30:30 CET 2003
guenter geiger wrote:
> HI,
>
> I had a try on implementing tooltips, just commited to CVS.
> Feedback is welcome.
>
> Generally youonly have to add a description what every inlet does
> in your abstractions:
>
> |inlet frequency|
>
the only problem with this is, that signal-[inlet~]s (and of course
[outlet~]s) already make use of the first argument. it is the
up/down-sampling algorithm.
so i think your idea (appealing as it is) provides inconsistency, and it
will grow worse, as people might get used to putting comments as
arguments into objects.
i think a better solution would be
a) from the GUI side: add a comment to any object via the right-click
properties.
b) from the pdfile-side: throw away pd's file-descripting language and
finally make it xml.
this would make files much bigger, but human-readable, which would be a
great improvement.
just my 4 cent.
the tooltip idea is great
mfg.a.dsr
IOhannes
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