[PD] Pd-extended 0.43 updates: lots of new editing features

[Jonathan Wilkes]

--- On Mon, 7/11/11, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:

> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> Subject: Re: [PD] Pd-extended 0.43 updates: lots of new editing features
> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Ivica Ico Bukvic" <ico at vt.edu>, pd-list at iem.at
> Date: Monday, July 11, 2011, 4:24 AM
> 
> On Jul 10, 2011, at 2:00 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

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> > Where would one define the standard function?
> 
> On page 32 of this document:
> http://peabody.sapp.org/class/dmp2/read/WritingMax_MSPExternals.pdf
> 
> You can see the 'assist' message.

If I'm understanding this correctly, "addmess" is analogous to class_addmethod (I guess if we made it standard, we could do class_addtooltip or something).  But then this would break [list], for example, or any object that currently has an anything method defined.  Or am I misunderstanding the model?

I mean, what happens in Max if the user happens to send the message "assist" to an inlet?

-Jonathan

> The Max GUI sends
> the 'assist'  
> message to an objectclass when you hover above an inlet or
> outlet,  
> then its up to the objectclass to implement a function
> which copies  
> the text into a provider buffer.  Then the Max GUI
> displays that text.
> 
> I guess we might as well just copy the interface of
> Max/MSP.  It seems  
> very Max/Pd-ish, and straightforward.
> 
> >> Pd would
> >> then check whether an object had that function
> when it
> >> loaded the
> >> binary, and if so register it in the tooltips.
> >