[PD-dev] How to send data from pd-gui to pd??

[Krzysztof Czaja]

hi Ben,

it is wonderful you have invested so much time, with trust and
patience.  I feel sorry for not having more time for toxy myself,
lately, causing much confusion, as it seems.  Using it in
a current project is a challenge I would not dare to advertise --
my other remark came out of a general concern about duplicating
code, keeping developers in sync, etc.

Now, what bothers me, is the ``bounding box'' phenomenon:

B. Bogart wrote:
...
> * The objects's bounding box changing side willy-nilly and being 
> altogether wrong on load.
> (I suppose this is a bug, but I can imagine the code to draw the box 
> around an arbitrary widget could be a little complicated.) Actually I 
> would prefer the non-selected bounding box just not be there, the 
> widgets's themselves have sufficient borders. Only the blue on select 
> box should remain, and its size does not need to be perfect.

I have never seen anything like that... perhaps, there is some
incompatibility with the cvs branch of Pd?  Even stranger is this:

> $3 $4 $5 ...]. Also this lead to object boxes many times wider than the 
> widget itself, making it awkward in a gui. I decided to try an external 

You mean the text object box is still visible behind the widget?
I am lost...

Also, changing menubutton's width is as simple, as sending
'-width <nchars>' to its [tow], or including it in the argument
list, or declaring in a .wid file -- everything works here, in
linux, using Miller's branch (this might be the case of some osx
peculiarity I am not aware of, though).

Configuring the menu is simple too, e.g. changing item's text on
the fly with "tot .-.pop entryconfig <itemno> -label <newtext>",
same with menu subcommands: 'add', 'delete', ...

Krzysztof