[PD] tooltips in pd-extended 0.43

[Jonathan Wilkes]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: pd-list List <pd-list at iem.at>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 4:05 PM
> Subject: Re: tooltips in pd-extended 0.43
> 
> 
> I think that we should be pushing GUI stuff to the Tcl side of things as
> much as possible, plus I prefer the current tooltip display down on the
> lower right.  I find that popups right next to the mouse are often annoying.

I do, too, but every GUI toolkit and its brother hovers them to the side of the 
current mouse location.

-Jonathan

> 
> .hc
> 
> On 03/06/2012 02:54 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>>  From: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
>>>  To: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>>>  Cc: 
>>>  Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 2:53 PM
>>>  Subject: tooltips in pd-extended 0.43
>>> 
>>>  Hello,
>>>       Hans asked me to write up an explanation of the new tooltips in 
> pd-extended 
>>>  0.43.
>>>  Attached are some patches that outline how they work.
>>>  Just open tips-help.pd.
>>> 
>>>  Tooltips get their tip information from the [pd META] subpatch inside 
> the help 
>>>  patch for 
>>> 
>>>  the object.  So if you want to have tooltips for your externals, or set 
> of 
>>>  abstractions, make 
>>> 
>>>  sure you have complete help patches for all of your object classes.
>>> 
>>>  Hans-- Ivica modified my original patch in the most recent build of 
> pd-l2ork so 
>>>  that the 
>>> 
>>>  tips follow the mouse, and he put the Enter/Leave logic on the c side 
> of things.
>>> 
>>>  -Jonathan
>