as if i remember Max in the olden days the inlet and outlet descriptors for objects were listed in the left bottom corner of the window. possible to give a choice for either way or is that too much coding overhead?<div><br>
</div><div>scott<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jancsika@yahoo.com">jancsika@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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----- Original Message -----<br>
> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <<a href="mailto:hans@at.or.at">hans@at.or.at</a>><br>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <<a href="mailto:jancsika@yahoo.com">jancsika@yahoo.com</a>><br>
> Cc: pd-list List <<a href="mailto:pd-list@iem.at">pd-list@iem.at</a>><br>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 4:05 PM<br>
> Subject: Re: tooltips in pd-extended 0.43<br>
><br>
><br>
> I think that we should be pushing GUI stuff to the Tcl side of things as<br>
> much as possible, plus I prefer the current tooltip display down on the<br>
> lower right. I find that popups right next to the mouse are often annoying.<br>
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</div>I do, too, but every GUI toolkit and its brother hovers them to the side of the<br>
current mouse location.<br>
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-Jonathan<br>
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><br>
> .hc<br>
><br>
> On 03/06/2012 02:54 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:<br>
>> ----- Original Message -----<br>
>>> From: Jonathan Wilkes <<a href="mailto:jancsika@yahoo.com">jancsika@yahoo.com</a>><br>
>>> To: Hans-Christoph Steiner <<a href="mailto:hans@at.or.at">hans@at.or.at</a>><br>
>>> Cc:<br>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 2:53 PM<br>
>>> Subject: tooltips in pd-extended 0.43<br>
>>><br>
>>> Hello,<br>
>>> Hans asked me to write up an explanation of the new tooltips in<br>
> pd-extended<br>
>>> 0.43.<br>
>>> Attached are some patches that outline how they work.<br>
>>> Just open tips-help.pd.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Tooltips get their tip information from the [pd META] subpatch inside<br>
> the help<br>
>>> patch for<br>
>>><br>
>>> the object. So if you want to have tooltips for your externals, or set<br>
> of<br>
>>> abstractions, make<br>
>>><br>
>>> sure you have complete help patches for all of your object classes.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Hans-- Ivica modified my original patch in the most recent build of<br>
> pd-l2ork so<br>
>>> that the<br>
>>><br>
>>> tips follow the mouse, and he put the Enter/Leave logic on the c side<br>
> of things.<br>
>>><br>
>>> -Jonathan<br>
><br>
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