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

[Jonathan Wilkes]

--- On Sun, 7/17/11, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:

> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> Subject: Re: [PD] Pd-extended 0.43 updates: lots of new editing features
> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Martin Peach" <martin.peach at sympatico.ca>, "pd-list" <pd-list at iem.at>
> Date: Sunday, July 17, 2011, 8:22 PM
> On Sat, 16 Jul 2011, Jonathan Wilkes
> wrote:
> > --- On Sat, 7/16/11, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> wrote:
> >>   3. Tell the value last put in an inlet, if
> it's
> >> currently stored (and
> >>      if the concept makes sense for
> >> that particular inlet).
> > 
> > If this is desired, then it's probably better to do
> everything except draw the tooltip window on the c side.
> 
> Why ?
> 
> > That's plenty.  The only thing that sucks harder
> than being annoyed by tooltips is being annoyed by gigantic
> tooltips <-[gigantic tooltips have lots and lots and lots
> of text inside them. They were designed by geniuses who
> think that informative paragraphs of text are important
> enough to interrupt the main interface view, yet ephemeral
> enough that a single accidental mouse movement of 2 pixels
> can cause the whole tooltip to].
> 
> Well, «tooltips» don't have to be implemented as bad as
> you describe, and for example, they don't have to be
> necessarily tooltips, and they don't have to display
> information that the user doesn't want to see.
> 
> Thus there can be features to display that info differently
> than as tooltips : statusbar, sidebar, or tooltip-like
> boxes that don't necessarily activate on <Enter> or
> don't necessarily deactivate on <Leave>. Implement
> whatever is comfortable and useful.
> 
> What would be a good way to toggle «enable inlet name
> tooltips», «enable method-list tooltips», etc., as
> separate settings ?

Probably just a drop-down list in a menu.

> 
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