[PD-dev] tooltips

IOhannes zmoelnig zmoelnig at iem.kug.ac.at
Wed Nov 26 08:30:30 CET 2003


guenter geiger wrote:
> HI,
> 
> I had a try on implementing tooltips, just commited to CVS.
> Feedback is welcome.
> 
> Generally youonly have to add a description what every inlet does
> in your abstractions:
> 
> |inlet frequency|
> 

the only problem with this is, that signal-[inlet~]s (and of course 
[outlet~]s) already make use of the first argument. it is the 
up/down-sampling algorithm.

so i think your idea (appealing as it is) provides inconsistency, and it 
will grow worse, as people might get used to putting comments as 
arguments into objects.
i think a better solution would be
  a) from the GUI side: add a comment to any object via the right-click 
properties.
  b) from the pdfile-side: throw away pd's file-descripting language and 
finally make it xml.
this would make files much bigger, but human-readable, which would be a 
great improvement.

just my 4 cent.


the tooltip idea is great

mfg.a.dsr
IOhannes





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