[PD-dev] displaying when an arg has been overridden

[Martin Peach]

Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>> On Jun 23, 2006, at 2:48 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>>>> I would prefer something like a tooltip. IIRC I never ran into the
>>> Personally, I find tooltips far more distracting that just a tiny bit
>>> of color on the screen.
>> If the tooltips have a longer delay until they show up, may that's
>> endurable?
>
> What if the edit menu has a checkbox to enable canvas-based tooltips?
>
> and a box to set the tooltip delay (?) which might not be needed.
>
> Usually, when someone doesn't want tooltips, the delay has better be 
> high, very high, and when someone wants tooltips, the delay has better 
> be low, very low. Which makes me think that there should be a toggle 
> between infinite delay and zero delay, at least.
>
A lot of applications use something like a control key combo or a 
right-click to display extra info, instantaneously, so, e.g.,  
right-clicking on a wire would show a tooltip. It's faster than toggling 
checkboxes on the main window or in a menu.

I have this recurring idea though that if pd had a GUI API that wasn't 
tied to tcl/tk then openGL could be used to represent patches in 3D, and 
the user could zoom _inside_ objects to set their parameters and check 
on their status.

Martin