[PD-dev] tooltips ideas (was: Re: [PD-dev] displaying when an arg has been overridden)

[João Miguel Pais]

> On a related note, if you are reconsidering properties panels, I  
> strongly encourage all y'all to make them Pd patches.  This is how  
> Max/MSP does it and I think it would work very well for Pd as well.   
> Sounds like this is a good opportunity to make the switch.

I guess (?) max uses a internal variable to connect the edit patches and  
GUI objects. In case the properties-patch gets implemented, I would  
suggest that this internal-send-mechanism doesn't interfere with the  
already common send-receive mechanism, as it is one of Pd's neatest and  
'individual' features. For example one of the inconveniences of my  
gui-edit patch is that the receive-symbol (and occasionally send) of the  
GUi must be edited, and then put back to 'normal' (in case a $0-variable  
is used). With this backstage temporal connection things would be even  
faster.

And, still assuming that this idea would get forward, it would really be  
necessary to implement query of GUI objects to know all the current  
parameters (for now only possible with the position of a cnv). Or, as it  
happens now, each properties patch is made from 0. To make new objects is  
this works (for example, I implemented the standard values), but to edit  
already existing ones (2 pixels wider, slight color change, etc.) is a  
pain.

speaking of colour, that would bring up the colour schemes question....  
well, you know what I mean. (I guess sometime all these small  
incongruencies will be solved, it just takes a bit of time - but the later  
the sollution, the bigger the problem)


Joao
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