[PD-dev] release April?

[Miller Puckette]

To Pd dev -

I'm thinking of making a release mid April (assuming things go well) and 
so I should probably call for a freeze late March.  As usual I plan to 
merge in "devel" and "Documentation" - in fact I should do a first merge 
rather soon, assuming things are in a good state for merging.

I'm planning to add a couple of features: 1. message to Pd to toggle 
between GUI and no-GUI -- perhaps with a way to reset the GUI startup 
command -- so that if you have a headless installation that's doing 
something funny you can pop it open and look; and 2. improvements to the 
"pointer" object to make it easier to get around data structures, and 
possibly a menu extension for dragging new "data" onto the screen; 3. an 
optional pop-up display showing (x,y) coordinates of object or data knob 
being dragged.

Incidentally: I just noticed that the IEM slider object (and proabbly 
other EM GUIs) spits out a number when clicked upon, even if not 
dragged.  Is this desirable behavior?  It caught me out buit perhaps 
other users are actually wanting to be able to click on a control to 
repeat its value.  Hmm..

cheers

Miller