<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div id="ydpf13b1749yahoo_quoted_5486326991" class="ydpf13b1749yahoo_quoted">> On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 2:11:36 PM EST, Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydpf13b1749yiv6555722964"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>> The idea doesn't sound bad, it'd be a nice GUI feature. As for the design, I think you'd need a special flag to set the name and not just some symbol, this way you'd not get into conflicts with the actual arguments.</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I have no plans to implement it that way, and the tooltip implementation we wrote in <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Pd-l2ork 1.0 draws directly from the help patches for its tooltip data.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">However, if it turns out that a sizable number of users are abusing inlet(~)/outlet(~) args that way and they really want it displayed in the tooltip, I'll revisit it.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">-Jonathan<br></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>> Well, anyway, someone started abusing the fact that the object doesn't complain about invalid arguments and now I can only see this as a bad practice indeed. I like to joke that Pd will not complain if you create [osc~ 440 hz (cycles per second)], but that doesn't mean you should do it :) <br></div></div></div></div></div>
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