[PD-dev] popup external

[guenter geiger]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, B. Bogart wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've put my first version of "popup" the popup menu widget in CVS.
>
> Its based on the button widget from GGEE, and has enherited some problems.

I have "sort of fixed" the GOP behaviour. Generally I think I still have
to get up to date with how GOP is handled in pd.
Currently every move of a GOP forces me to delete and recreate
the widget.

Guenter

>
> Its only lightly tested on linux, fairly tested on osx and untested on
> windows.
>
> The biggest issues are: (which would help with other widget externals)
> * It shows up in a GOP abstraction, but when you move the abstraction PD
> can't find the widget path.  (button from GGEE also does this)
> * popup is messy about its width (dependant on font size!). Best
> solution is to get the widget to report its size and fit the box
> accordingly. I know how to do this in tcl: [canvas] itemcget [tags]
> -width which does return the size in pixels, not characters. I would
> have fixed this already, but I don't know how to get the data from
> tcl/tk back to C, without it being treated as a method selector. (the
> output should not be bound to an outlet, but simply passed to an
> internal function that changes the box size) The result of this is the
> second outlet does not know where to be exactly!
>
> Guenter, thanks for these examples and your help. I changed some code in
> the functions that draw the inlet and outlets by adding two tags, one
> for the particular outlet, and one for all the outlets. This way you can
> send one C command to erase all the outlets, rather than using a  loop.
>
> comments welcome.
>
> Thanks all,
> Ben
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