[PD-dev] tooltips

guenter geiger geiger at xdv.org
Wed Nov 26 10:55:06 CET 2003


Hi IOHannes,

yes, I am aware of the problem. A solution would be the properties dialog.
Still pondering .....
Never used the up/downsampling algorithm settings ...

Guenter

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, IOhannes zmoelnig wrote:
> 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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