[PD] Pd-extended 0.43 updates: lots of new editing features
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at at.or.at
Sun Jul 17 01:00:52 CEST 2011
On Jul 16, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>
>> I'm not doing it that way. I'm looking up the xlet info in the
>> help patch in [pd META] when the xlet is created, then putting the
>> relevant text as an argument to the command that gets "bind"ed to
>> the xlet tag's <Enter> and <Leave> events.
>> Better to just add a few lines of tcl to gather the relevant info
>> from your help docs.
>
> I wonder whether there might be any other reasons to have an assist-
> method in a way that can't be done in any other way. What are the
> possible use for the tooltips ?
>
> 1. Tell the name of the inlet. This is not an info already present in
> the class, and usually not in the docs either.
>
> 2. Tell the list of methods.
>
> 3. Tell the value last put in an inlet, if it's currently stored (and
> if the concept makes sense for that particular inlet).
The magicglass functionality does this, but doesn't show the stored
value, only the message as it passes. I suppose it would be nice to
see a stored value in an inlet...
.hc
> 4. Other. (which uses ?)
>
> I think that you are mostly only thinking about #2, and Günter's
> system was only taking care of #1, and I think that there was a pd-
> list discussion about something like #3 a long time ago.
>
> I don't know what's available in MAX, and I don't think that it
> necessarily has to be implemented in the same way.
>
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