<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div id="ydp9ce40972yahoo_quoted_4779447746" class="ydp9ce40972yahoo_quoted">> On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 2:48:36 PM EST, Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp9ce40972yiv0890629452"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="ydp9ce40972yiv0890629452yqt1810197813" id="ydp9ce40972yiv0890629452yqtfd73311"><div dir="ltr">Em ter., 2 de mar. de 2021 às 16:26, Jonathan Wilkes <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:jancsika@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">jancsika@yahoo.com</a>> escreveu:<br clear="none"></div></div><div class="ydp9ce40972yiv0890629452gmail_quote"><div class="ydp9ce40972yiv0890629452yqt1810197813" id="ydp9ce40972yiv0890629452yqtfd85661"><blockquote class="ydp9ce40972yiv0890629452gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div id="ydp9ce40972yiv0890629452gmail-m_2185791826060104008ydp8ee93398yahoo_quoted_5292024901"><div style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(38,40,42);"><div><div id="ydp9ce40972yiv0890629452gmail-m_2185791826060104008ydp8ee93398yiv9869575064"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Pd-l2ork 1.0 has tooltips</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><div>> hmm, but how does it work?</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">By fetching the data from `[pd META]` subpatches in help patches, which is the same across abstractions, binary externals, and internal classes.<br></div><div><br></div><div>> Does it show the symbol from an inlet argument?</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Nope. I knew one *could* abuse inlet(~)/outlet(~) to write descriptions of the data flowing, but I didn't know until last week that anyone was actually using it to do that in practice.<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I'd strongly advise investigating a way to implement tooltips that is more robust-- one that handles cases for externals as well as showing a general description when mousing over the main rectangle of an object.<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Otherwise you'll end up with something like Cascading Style Sheets where the data for tips is scattered all over the place, or tooltip data in one place overrides tooltip data in another, etc.<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">-Jonathan<br></div><div><br></div><div>> If so, there is in fact a version of Pd that implements this.</div><div class="ydp9ce40972yiv0890629452yqt1810197813" id="ydp9ce40972yiv0890629452yqtfd95840"><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div><div class="ydp9ce40972yiv0890629452yqt1810197813" id="ydp9ce40972yiv0890629452yqtfd64926">
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